Friday, January 21, 2022

AC 2802 - "He Said"; AC 2803 - The Divine Essence With the Human

Isaac said unto Abraham his father;
and he said, My father;
and he said, Here am I, my son.
And he said, Behold the fire and the wood;
and where is the lamb for a burnt-offering? "
(Genesis 22:7)

AC 2802

That more arcana lie hid in these words
than can come to human perception,
is evident from the fact that the words "he said"
occur four times in this verse.
It is usual in the Word,
when any new thing is begun, to say, "and he said".
The same is evident from the fact
that the words are words of love;
and when such come
to the perception of the celestial angels
who are in the inmost sense,
they form for themselves from them
most celestial ideas;
for they form for themselves luminous ideas
from the affections in the Word,
whereas the spiritual angels do so
from the meanings of the words and of the things;
and thus from these words,
in which there are four
distinct periods and affections of love,
the celestial angels form such things
as can in no wise come down to human apprehension,
nor can be put into words;
and this with ineffable abundance and variety.
So we can see what the quality of the Word is
in its internal sense,
even where it appears simple in the letter,
as in this verse.

AC 2803

Truth cannot be and come forth
from any other source than good,
as has been shown many times.
That the "son" here is the Divine Truth,
and the "father" the Divine Good,
is because the union
of the Divine Essence with the Human,
and of the Human Essence with the Divine,
is the Divine marriage of Good with Truth,
and of Truth with Good,
from which comes the heavenly marriage;
for in Jehovah or the Lord
there is nothing but what is infinite;
and because infinite,
it cannot be apprehended by any idea,
except that it is the being and the coming forth
of all good and truth,
or is Good itself and Truth itself.
Good itself is the "Father,"
and Truth itself is the "Son."
But because as before said
there is a Divine marriage of Good and Truth,
and of Truth and Good,
the Father is in the Son,
and the Son is in the Father,
as the Lord Himself teaches in John:

Jesus saith unto Philip,

Don't you know Me, Philip,
even after I have been among you such a long time?
Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father.
How can you say,
'Show us the Father'?
Don't you believe that I am in the Father,
and that the Father is in Me?
The words I say to you
are not just My own.
Rather, it is the Father,
living in Me, who is doing His work.
Believe Me when I say
that I am in the Father
and the Father is in Me . . ..
(John 14:9-11)


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