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 good and truth which are from himself are not good and truth, because there is not in them life from the Divine." **** "Since all these things proceed from the Divine of the Lord, and in them is heaven to the angels, it is manifest that the Divine of the Lord makes heaven, and not the angels from anything of their own. Thence it is that heaven in the Word is called the habitation of the Lord, and his throne, and that those who are there are said to be in the Lord."—H. & H., n. 7-8.

It is important also, to observe in what way the divine love and wisdom are received in the formation of heaven.—To receive those divine things which make heaven, is to receive the Lord himself as divine goodness and truth, as divine goodness into the affections of the heart, and as divine truth into the light of the understanding. But it is impossible to think of and love the Lord under any other form than that of a Divine Man. This impossibility results from the constitution of the mind itself. For that divine goodness and truth, towards which the affections and thoughts are directed, can only be conceived of, as existing in one Divine Person, who is himself supremely good, and infinitely wise. And accordingly, the Lord has always manifested himself to us in a form adapted to the affections of the heart, and to the thoughts of the understanding,—has manifested himself as a Divine Man. This was especially the case in that most perfect and glorious manifestation, by which he "visited and radeemed his people." That the Lord is a Divine Man, in whom is a trinity consisting of the divine love, the divine wisdom, and the divine influence, is a truth which is very manifestly shown in a great multitude and, variety of passages in the sacred scriptures; and may also be very fully confirmed by reason and reflection. The reader who would see a full and perfect demonstration of this important truth, may find it in the works of our author, especially in a small work entitled "The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem, concerning the Lord."

Such being the nature of the Lord, essentially and per-