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74 to order, is an image and correspondent of God-Man. Correspondence is, therefore, first between God, who is Absolute Man, and the whole heaven, which is in the human form from Him. God is very Man. In the heavens there is no other idea of God but the idea of a Man; because the divine principles which cause the angels to be angels, taken together are God, and every angel is a man, and every angelic society is in the human form, and the whole heaven is a Grand Man, from correspondence with His Infinite Manhood. An Eternal Mind is an eternal Man. This is the God of Revelation, who is a Divine Person of Infinite Love and Wisdom, capable of showing Himself to men as a Divine Man, and desiring to be known and worshipped as a loving and wise God in human form. "God is Man," is the postulate of reason also. Nothing proceeds out of anything except it first be in it; and the spiritual and natural worlds conspiring to the human form, and to the service of men and angels, who are "men in lighter garment clad," can only proceed from a God who is Absolute Man, and who produces from Himself more and more perfect images of His Manhood.

In the work on Heaven and Hell,