AC 4218 - The Grand Man

AC 4218

In order that the reader may have a general knowledge
of how the case is with the Grand Man,
let him bear in mind
that the universal heaven is the Grand Man,
and that heaven is called the Grand Man
because it corresponds to
the Divine Human of the Lord;
for the Lord alone is Man,
and an angel and a spirit,
and also a man on earth,
are men in exact proportion
to what they have from Him.
Let no one believe that man is man
from his possession of
a natural human face, body, brain,
and organs and members;
for all these are common to him with brute animals,
and therefore these are what die
and become a carcass.
But man is man from being able
to think and will as a man,
and thus to receive what is Divine,
that is, what is of the Lord.
By this man distinguishes himself
from beasts and wild animals;
and in the other life also
his quality as a man is determined by
what he has received from the Lord
and made his own in the life of the body.
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man = all human, all humankind