Sunday, December 18, 2022

AC 6135 - "Body"

AC 6135 [3] - "Body"

That in the genuine sense "body" is the good of love,
is very evident from the angels,
for when they become present,
love so pours out of them
that you would believe them to be nothing but love,
and this from their whole body,
which also appears bright and shining
from the light which is from the love;
for the good of love is like a flame
which emits from itself light,
which is the truth of faith derived from there.
This being the character of the angels in heaven,
what must not the Lord Himself be,
from whom the angels have everything of love,
and whose Divine Love appears as a Sun
from which the universal heaven has its light,
and all who are therein have their heavenly heat,
that is, their love, thus their life.
It is the Lord's Divine Human which so appears,
and from which all these things are.
From this it is evident what is meant by
the Lord's "body," namely, the Divine love,
in like manner as by His "flesh".
Moreover the Lord's very body when glorified,
that is, made Divine, is nothing else.
What else must we think about the Divine,
which is infinite?

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