AE 748 - The Lord's Divine Human; AE 750 - The Soul

 AE 748

. . . all Divine truth which fills the heavens
and constitutes the wisdom of the angels in the heavens
proceeds from the Lord's Divine Human;
for the Lord's Divine Human is united to the Divine Itself
which was in Him from conception,
so that they are one;
the Divine Itself that was in Him from conception
is what He called "Father;"
this is united to His Human
as the soul is united with the body;
this is why the Lord says that:

He is one with the Father.
(John 10:30, 38)
And that He is in the Father and the Father in Him.
(John 14:7-11)

Because there is such a union,
Divine truth, after the glorification of His Human,
proceeds from His Divine Human.
The Divine truth proceeding
from the Lord's Divine Human
is what is called "the Holy Spirit."
That this proceeds
from the glorified Human of the Lord,
He Himself teaches in John:

The Holy Spirit was not yet,
because Jesus was not yet glorified.
(John 7:39)

The Human glorified is the Divine Human.

. . . the Lord's Human is Divine,
for the Divine itself cannot dwell elsewhere
than in what is Divine itself.

AE 750 [5, 6, 28]

That "soul" means the life of man's spirit,
which is called his spiritual life . . ..

Thou shalt love Jehovah thy God
with all thy heart,
with all thy soul,
and with all thy might.
(Deuteronomy 6:5; 10:12; 11:13; 26:16)

And in the Gospels:

Jesus said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart
and with all thy soul
and with all thy mind.
(Matthew 22:37; Mark 12:30, 33; Luke 10:27)

"To love Jehovah God
with all the heart and all the soul"
means with all the will and all the understanding,
also with all the love and all the faith,
for "heart" signifies the love and the will,
and "soul" signifies the faith and the understanding.
"Heart" signifies these two,
the love and the will,
because a person's love is of his will;
and "soul" signifies the two,
namely, faith and understanding,
because faith is of the understanding.

And as the Divine proceeding from the Lord
constitutes the life of all,
therefore that life is meant by "soul"
in the celestial sense.
Because the Divine proceeding, wherever it comes,
forms an image of the Lord,
thus it so forms angels and spirits
that they may be human forms according to reception;
so it now follows
that the soul that lives after death
must mean the spirit of a person,
which is a person with both a soul and a body,
a soul that rules over the body,
and a body by which the soul effects
its will in the world in which it is.