AC 1616-1617 - The Lord's Sixth State

AC 1616 [3-5], 1617

From the internal sense it is here evident
how the case was with the Lord,
namely, that His external man, or the Human Essence,
was conjoined with the Divine Essence by degrees,
according to the multiplication
and fructification of knowledges.
In no way can anyone, as a man,
be conjoined with Jehovah or the Lord,
except by means of knowledges,
for by means of knowledges a man becomes a man;
and so the Lord, because born as are other men,
was also instructed as they are,
but into His knowledges as receptacles
celestial things were constantly being insinuated,
so that the knowledges continually became
the recipient vessels of celestial things,
and themselves also became celestial. 

He continually advanced in this way
to the celestial things of infancy for,
as before said, the celestial things that are of love
are insinuated from the earliest infancy up to childhood,
and also to youth,
when being a man he is then and afterwards
imbued with knowledges.
If the man is such that he can be regenerated,
these knowledges are then filled
with the celestial things that are of love and charity,
and are thus implanted in the celestial things
with which he has been gifted
from infancy up to childhood and youth;
and thus his external man is conjoined with his internal man. 
They are first implanted
in the celestial things with which he was gifted in youth,
next in those with which he was gifted in childhood,
and finally in those with which he was gifted in infancy;
and then he is a "little child," of whom the Lord said
that "of such is the kingdom of God."
This implantation is effected by the Lord alone;
and for this reason nothing celestial is possible with man,
nor can be,
that is not from the Lord, and that is not the Lord's. 

But the Lord from His own power
conjoined His external man with His internal man,
and filled His knowledges with celestial things,
and implanted them in the celestial things,
and this in fact according to Divine order;
first in the celestial things of His childhood,
next in the celestial things of the age
between childhood and infancy;
and finally in the celestial things of His infancy;
and thus at the same time became,
as to the Human Essence,
innocence itself and love itself,
from which are all innocence and all love
in the heavens and on earth.
Such innocence is true infancy,
because it is at the same time wisdom.
But the innocence of infancy,
unless by means of knowledges
it becomes the innocence of wisdom,
is of no use;
and therefore in the other life
infants are imbued with knowledges.
As the Lord implanted knowledges in celestial things,
so had He perception,
for, as before said,
all perception is from conjunction.
He had His first perception
when He implanted the memory-knowledges of childhood,
which perception is signified by "the oak-grove of Moreh;"
and His second, treated of here, which is more internal,
when He implanted knowledges,
which perception is signified by
"the oak-groves of Mamre that are in Hebron."

. . . this is the sixth state . . ..