AC 2249 - Of Great Importance; AC 2253 - The Lord's Pure Love

AC 2249 [1-2]

. . . in this chapter in the internal sense
the state of the Lord's thought and perception
is so fully described,
and at the beginning
the state of the conjunction
of the Lord's Human with His Divine,
will possibly appear to a person
as if it were not of so much importance.

And yet it is of the greatest moment;
for before the angels,
to whom the internal sense is the Word,
these things are presented to the life,
together with their representatives,
in a most beautiful form;
besides numberless things that follow from them
and bear their likeness,
concerning the Lord's conjunction with heaven,
and the reception of His Divine in their human;
for the ideas of angels are such
that they relish such things above all others,
and perceive them as being most pleasant;
and they are also enlightened and confirmed by them
more and more in regard to the union of
the Lord's Human Essence with His Divine Essence . . ..

AC 2253

With the Lord, when He was in the world,
there was no other life
than the life of love toward the universal human race,
which He ardently desired to eternally save.
This is the truest celestial life,
by which He united Himself to the Divine,
and the Divine to Himself --
for Esse itself, or Jehovah,
is nothing else than Mercy,
which is of love to the universal human race --
and that life was one of pure love,
which is never possible with any person.
Those who do not know what life is,
and that the life is such as the love,
do not comprehend this.
This shows that insofar as anyone loves his neighbor,
insofar he partakes of the Lord's life.