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Rh pages. "There is one God: even Jesus Christ," is the doctrine of the New Church uniformly and consistently adhered to without modification or reservation by Swedenborg. He is Jehovah God in His Divine Humanity. He is not to be thought of as a Divine, all-pervading, invisible spirit of intelligence and power or other abstractions; but as the Divine Man, in whom is love and wisdom itself and from whom love and wisdom proceed; first as the sun of heaven, and thence as spiritual heat and light which are received as love and wisdom in the created wills and understandings of angels and men. The Lord from Eternity, who is Man, descended and assumed a human organic form in all its degrees, by birth of a virgin; and this also he glorified in all its degrees by putting off what was finite and infirm and putting on the Divine in the same degree, even to the corporeal or bodily degree which man leaves in the world, and rose with His whole body a Divine Substantial Human Form; from which is the Holy Spirit, which is the all of life, form, force and order in heaven and on earth. This is the doctrine of the New Church which Swedenborg expounds, explains, definitely and with many