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Rh shows in order: I. That the Lord i.e. the Lord Jesus Christ, who is Jehovah in His Divine Humanity, is the God of heaven. II. That the Divine of the Lord, i.e. the divine love and wisdom proceeding from Him, makes heaven. III. That heaven consists of innumerable societies; and that every society is a heaven in less form, and every angel in least. IV. That every angel is in a perfect human form; every society of angels, in a larger and more perfect human form; and the whole heaven in one complex, as one Grand Man. All this because the Lord who is God Man creates men images and likenesses of Himself as to the human form, with indefinite varieties of that form; so that when brought into true order by regeneration, each may image the Lord differently from all others, and out of the harmony this variety, may be constituted one grand image and likeness of the infinite things in the Lord. Thus it is that the whole heaven corresponds on the one hand to the Lord, and on the other to the human form, or to the members, organs and viscera in man. On the one hand the spiritual organic form of the angel, corresponds to principles in the Lord and from Him; and because