Friday, December 18, 2009

AR 820 - the coming of the one God of heaven and earth

AR 820
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse . . ..
"heaven was seen open" is signified a revelation from the Lord . . ..
By "a horse" is signified the understanding of the Word,
and by "a white horse" the interior understanding of the Word . . ..

Everyone who does not think beyond the sense of the letter,
believes that when the Last Judgment shall come,
the Lord will appear in the clouds of heaven
with the angels and sounds of trumpets.
But that this is not meant,
but that He will appear . . . in the spiritual sense of the Word.
It appears not only that He is the Word, that is, the Divine truth itself,
and that He is the inmost of the Word, and consequently the all of it;
but also that He Himself is the one God, in whom is the Trinity,
and thus the only God of heaven and earth;
and moreover that He came into the world,
that He might glorify His Human, that is, make it Divine.
The Human which He glorified, that is, made Divine,
was the natural human, which He could not glorify or make Divine
but by taking on the human in a virgin in the natural world;
to which He then united His Divine, which He had from eternity.
That unition was effected by temptations
admitted into the human that He had taken,
the last of which was the passion of the cross,
and at the same time by the fulfilling of all things of the Word;
not only by the fulfilling of all things of the Word in its natural sense,
but also by the fulfilling of all things of the Word in its spiritual sense
and in its celestial sense . . .

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