AC 6884
. . . the fact that the historicals of the Word
cannot enter into heaven;
for the historical of the Word is natural and worldly,
and those who are in heaven
are in no ideas but what are spiritual,
so that they understand the Word spiritually;
and what is worldly,
which is of the sense of the letter of the Word,
is at the very threshold of heaven
turned into the spiritual sense.
That this is so,
can in some measure be seen from the fact
that man also frequently turns those things which are said
into such as engage his whole thought;
thus he who is in unclean things, into what is unclean;
and he who is in clean things, into what is clean.
Consequently then it is
that they who are in heaven,
by "the God of your fathers"
do not perceive
the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob
(for Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are not known in heaven),
but the Lord who is represented by them;
and therefore it is the Divine of the Ancient Church
which is signified by these words.
AC 6887 [3]
. . . as the Divine Human is the quality of the Divine Itself,
therefore it is said . . . in the Lord's Prayer by:
Our Father in the heavens; hallowed be Thy name
(Matthew 6:9)
is meant the Lord as to the Divine Human;
as well as everything in its entirety
by which one should worship Him
Friday, August 09, 2013
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