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 the heavens are sustained by influx from the Lord, He, looking upon them in general view, sees the reflection of His Divine Humanity as in a mirror. In general those who are in supreme love to the Lord are the head of this Maximus Homo, this Grand Man. Those who are in love to the neighbors, are in the body; and those who are in simply the love of the external order and life of heaven, are in the feet; and each according to his use is in his particular part of his division. Now the point to be grasped is this. There is an influx from the Divine Humanity into the interiors of the heavens, into their highest functions, from which there is faculty to perform uses. And this influx descends to the spiritual body, and operates its organs from Correspondence. Men upon the earth receive this influx, which by Correspondence descends, and operates the mind and all the organs of the material body. Thus man upon the earth lives by influx from the Divine Humanity, and the organs of the material body are in Correspondence with the Grand Man, which is in Correspondence with the Divine Humanity. Therefore Paul said, "For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another, having their gifts