DLW 330 - Creation Is the Support For a Human Race Heaven

DLW 330

Since the final end in creation
is an angelic heaven from the human race,
and so also the human race,
therefore its intermediate ends are all other phenomena
that have been created.
And because these have relation to mankind,
they have regard to
these three constituents of a person, namely,
his body, his rational faculty, and his spiritual character,
for the sake of his conjunction with the Lord.
For a person cannot be conjoined with the Lord
unless he is spiritual,
and he cannot be spiritual without being rational,
and he cannot be rational
without having a body in sound condition.
These three are like a house.
The body is like the foundation.
The person's rational faculty is like
 the superstructure of the house.
His spiritual character is like
the furnishings in the house.
And conjunction with the Lord is like his inhabiting of it.