DP 165, 168, 172 - The Lord, the Word, Being Human

DP 165

The Lord leads a person by influx
because to be led and also to flow in
are expressions applied to love and the will;
and He teaches a person by enlightenment
because to be taught and to be enlightened
are properly expressions
applied to wisdom and the intellect.

DP 168

An interior and an exterior
enlightenment by the Lord is possible,
and also is an interior and an exterior
enlightenment by man.
It is an interior enlightenment by the Lord
that enables a person to perceive at first hearing
whether a statement is true or not.
An exterior enlightenment
is the result of this in his consequent thought.
An interior enlightenment by man
is the result of mere justification.
And an exterior enlightenment by man
comes from the simple possession of knowledge.

DP 172 [2, 4]

Now, because the Word is from the Lord alone
and about the Lord alone,
it follows that when a person is taught by the Word,
he is taught by the Lord.
For the Word is Divine.
Who can communicate something Divine
and implant it in people's hearts
but the Divine itself
from whom it comes and of whom it treats?

. . . the Lord is
the Divine truth accompanying Divine good.
Every human being is human
not because of his face and anatomy,
but because of the goodness of his love
and the truths of his wisdom.
And as a human being is human because of these,
every person is also his own truth and own good,
or his own love and own wisdom.
Without these he is not human.
The Lord, however, is goodness itself and truth itself,
or to say the same thing,
love itself and wisdom itself.
And these are the Word
which was in the beginning with God,
and which was God,
and which became flesh.