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PART ONE
Chapter Three
GOD AS MAN
1. The Divine Human Form before Creation.
W. 285
W. 52. (General article):
" All things in the universe have been created by the
divine Love and the divine Wisdom of God-Man." (P. 3, gne art.)
T. 36f
T. 37
"God is the First and Only
- the first substance and form - whose essence is love and wisdom; and
because out of Him all things were made that were made, it follows
that He created the universe with everything of it, out of love by wisdom.
Thence the Divine Love together with the Divine Wisdom is in all
and every created subject. Love...is not only the essence
which forms all things, but it also unites and conjoins them, and thus
keeps them when formed in connection...." (Illus.)
T. 49
"Omnipotence, Omniscience,
and omnipresence, pertain to the Divine Essence.
W. 55
"It is known that the things
of the universe, one and all, were created by God; hence the universe
with all and each of the things in it is called in the Word the work
of the hands of Jehovah. It is said that the world with all that
is in it was created out of nothing; and concerning that nothing an
idea is entertained as of absolutely nothing; when yet from absolutely
nothing nothing is made, or can be made. This is an evident
truth. The universe therefore, which is an image of God, and therefore
full of God, could only be created in God from God; for God is Esse
Itself, and that which is must be from Esse. To create that which
is created in God From God is not continuous from Him; for God is Esse
in Itself, and that which is must be from Esse. To create that
which is, from nothing, which is not, is an utter contradiction.
"Nevertheless, that which
is created in God from God is not continuous from Him; for God is Esse
in Itself, and in created things there is not any Esse in itself. If
in created things there were any Esse in itself, this would be continuous
from God, and what is continuous from God is God.
"The angelic idea on the
subject is like this: That what is created in God from God is
like that in man which he has taken from his life, but from which life
is withdrawn, which is such that it agrees with his life but still is
not his life. The angels confirm this by many things which exist
in their heaven, where they say they are in God, and God is in them,
and yet they have nothing of God, which is God, in their esse. Many
things by which they confirm this will be adduced in what follows; here
it is only mentioned for information." (W. 55)
W. 55:
All that is created is in
se inanimate and dead, but is animated and vivified by the Divine
in it, and by it being in the Divine.
T. 46:
T. 43:
It is the essence of Love to love others outside of itself,
to will to be one with them, and to make them happy from itself.
W. 47:
Love is to feel the joy of another as joy in one's self.
To feel one's own joy in another, and not other's joy in one's
self, is not loving.
The Lord from eternity
was Man (the Father in human form), but not yet in the
flesh,even as an angel has not "flesh" (A. 93150
Lk. 24:39; E. 1112).
In God-Man, infinite
things are one distinctly (W. 17, 22).
The Creator should be
conceived of as a Divine Man in Firsts (Ath.Cr. 120).
D. 4847:
There are not three
equal essences in God, but three successive essences. (Expl.)
"The Divine Itself which is the first essence
was MAN in contu seu in fieri; whence He was Man
(ita reflexive homo)" Second, Man born,
and essentially from the first. Third, in successivo,
homo procedens, quod est totum coelum, and thus the
Holy Spirit.
W. 233:
Two prior degrees
actually, the third degree in potency.
Superinduced
the third degree, called the Natural.
All the degrees
are infinite and uncreate in the Lord. Compare W.
222.
Q. ii.
The Lord from
eternity...was Divine Love and Divine Wisdom, and had then
the Divine Celestial and Divine Spiritual, but not the Divine
Rational before He assumed the Human. [The Rational
from heaven, see Representative Human.]
See
also: A. 6280, 10579, 5110, 4687.
2. The Divine Human before Incarnation.
From the first creation
He was in the Human from Himself, viz., in the universal heaven which, in the
comples, refers to one Man...
A. 6000:
Before the Advent, the Divine
Human was Jehovah in the heavens. He presented Himself as a
Divine Man. (Not so completely ONE with the Divine in Se)
A. 5663:
Q. vi:
Before the Incarnation there was not any Divine Human
except a representative one by means of some angel whom the Lord
infilled with His Spirit...
A. 6571:
For previously the divine transflux
through heaven had been the Divine Human; it was also the divine
Man which was presented to view when Jehovah so appeared; but this
divine Human ceased when the Lord Himself made the Human in Himself
Divine.
A. 46872:
The ancients perceived the Infinite
Existing (Existens), in which is the Infinite Esse, as a divine
Man... For whatever passes through the Grand Man from the
infinite Esse is attended with this image of it... A. 46924.
3. The Divine Human after Incarnation.
W. 221:
L. 36:
God thus became Man, as in primes,
so in ultimates. (Cp. D. 4847)
God the Savior, Jesus Christ
(in PTW p. 553)
39. Christ alone is Man from eternity and
natural Man in time.
27. ...in no other way [than
by the Incarnation] could He...add the Human in time to the Divine from
eternity. (Cp. E. 1112)
8. The
One God willed to become a natural Man and thus full Man. (why).
"Ecco Homo" explained
in A. 914411.
4. The Divine Human after Glorification.
W. 389:
To be Man nothing must be lacking.
W. 18:
"Every one who believes
that God is Man, can satisfy himself that there are infinite things
in God. And because He is Man, He has a body, and everything belonging
to the body; thus He has a face, a breast, an abdomen, loins, feet;
for without these He would not be Man. And having these, He has
also eyes, ears, nostrils, mouth, tongue; as also the things which are
within a man, as heart, lungs, and their appendages; all of which, taken
together, make man to be man. In a created man these parts are
many, and in their details of structure they are innumerable; but in
God-Man they are infinite, nothing being wanting, and therefore
He has infinite perfection. A comparison is made between the Uncreate
Man, Who is God, and a created man, because God is Man, and it is said
by Him that the man of this world was created after His image and into
His likeness" (Genesis 1:26,27).
W. 14:
The Divine Soul of God-Man is
what is meant by the Divine ESSE, and the Divine Body is what is meant
by the Divine EXISTERE.
W. 2653
His Human Body cannot be thought
of as either great or small...
Moreover the Human is the inmost
of every created thing, but devoid of space.
J.Post. 129:
Rejecting His finite, His Body
became like His Soul, thus Infinite. (Cp. n. 87)
D. 4845:
With the Lord's glorified Human,
the Divine Love (the Esse of His life) had formed the body after its
likeness...to such a degree that all [the organs] should be formed of
Divine Love, and since it was made Divine, they are Divine Love. Nothing
there is closed, as in finites; but all things are formed according
to the idea of an infinite heaven.
E. 151:
The necessity of the idea of
God-man.
Man cannot think of the Divine Itself devoid of the
human form, except as of Nature in its seasts.
Reason for the denial of the Divine Human form at this
day:- they form a conclusion from space Ath.Cr. 154.
Thought of Godin a spiritual light apart from space
is possible. w. 7, 70f.
Elevation into heaven necessarily causes thought of
the Divine under the Human Form. D. 5775e; E 27
5. The Divine Human as Divine Truth
and Spiritual Law, and as the WORD. The Second Coming.
In the Letter of the Word He is as to the Human; in the
Internal Sense (now revealed through Swedenborg) He is as to His Divine.
Inv. 44
The Lord is present in Divine Truths from the Word, which
are from Him and are Himself. E. 726.\
The Word interiorly is alive. De Varbo ii.
End of Chapter 3.
 
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