Tuesday, November 07, 2023

AC 10042, 10025, 10053, 10054 - Glorification Regeneration, Offerings

AC 10042 [6]

To glorify the Human is to make it Divine,
but to regenerate a person is to make him heavenly,
in order that the Divine of the Lord may dwell in him.

AC 10052 [2]

. . . concerning His Human
it cannot be said that it was regenerated,
but that it was glorified,
for His inmost,
which with a person is called the soul from the father,
was the Divine Itself,
as He was conceived of Jehovah.
The Divine Itself is the Divine good of the Divine love;
and as the Lord united His Human with this,
and thus made His Human also Divine,
therefore it cannot be said
that His Human was regenerated,
but glorified, for "to glorify" is to make Divine.
The glorification of His internal man,
or of His internal Human,
is described by representatives in the burnt-offerings
from rams and from lambs.

AC 10053

This is a burnt-offering unto Jehovah.

(Exodus 29:18)

That this means the glorification of the Lord's Human,
is evident from the representation of a burnt-offering,
as being the glorification of the Lord's Human.
Among the Jewish nation
there were sacrifices and burnt-offerings;
the "sacrifices" meant
purification from evils and falsities,
and the implantation of truth,
but the "burnt-offerings" meant
the conjunction of truth with good,
thus full and complete regeneration.
In the supreme sense however,
which treats of the Lord,
the "sacrifices" meant the casting out
of evils and falsities from His Human
that was from the mother,
and the implantation of
Divine truth from the Divine good which was in Him;
and the "burnt-offerings" meant
the union of the Divine truth with the Divine good,
which union is what is meant by "glorification."
For when the Lord was in the world
He made His Human Divine truth,
and successively also by the union
with the Divine good which was in Him
and was the being of His life,
He made His Human Divine good,
thus one with Jehovah.
The being of His life was that which with a person
is called the soul from the father,
and this was the Divine good itself or the Divine love.

AC 10054

The burnt-offering is called
"an odor of rest to Jehovah,"
because by the burnt offering
was represented the union
of the Divine Human of the Lord with the Divine Itself;
and through this union
peace was acquired in the heavens;
for all the hells were subjugated by the Lord
when He was in the world,
and all the heavens were reduced into order.
From this it is plain why it is
that the burnt-offering is called
"an odor of rest to Jehovah,"
as in many other places where
the burnt-offerings and the meat-offerings
are treated of.


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