Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 304

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304. The Lord united the Divine Truth with the Divine Good, and thus the Human with the Divine Itself. The Lord was instructed like any other man, nos. 1457, 1461, 2523, 3030. The Lord advanced successively, even to union with the Father, nos. 1864, 2033, 2632, 3141, 4585, 7014, 10076. So far as the Lord was united to the Father, so far He spoke as with Himself; but at other times He spoke with Him as with another, nos. 1745, 1999, 7058. The Lord united the Human to the Divine from His own power nos. 1616, 1749, 1752, 1813, 1921, 2025, 2026, 2523, 3141, 5005, 5045, 6716. The Lord united the Divine Truth which was Himself, with the Divine Good which was in Himself, nos. 10047, 10052, 10076. The unition was reciprocal, nos. 2004, 10067. When the Lord departed out of the world, He made His Human Divine Good, nos. 3194, 3210, 6864, 7499, 8724, 9199, 10076. Thus He came forth from the Father, and returned to the Father, nos. 3194, 3210. He thus became one with the Father, nos. 2751, 3704, 4766. In the unition with the very Divine which was in Himself, the Lord had respect to the conjunction of Himself with the human race, no. 2034. Since the unition the Divine Truth proceeds from the Lord, nos. 3704, 3712, 3969, 4577, 5704, 7499, 8127, 8241, 9199, 9398. How the Divine Truth proceeds, illustrated, nos. 7270, 9407. Unless the Divine had been in the Lord's Human from conception, the Human could not have been united with the Divine Itself, on account of the ardor of the infinite Love in which the Divine Itself is, no. 6849. For this reason no angel can ever be united with the Divine Itself except from a distance, and by a veiling; otherwise he would be consumed, no. 6849. The Divine Love is of such a quality, no. 8644. From this it may appear that the Lord's Human was not like the human of any other man, nos. 10125, 10826. His union with the Father, from whom was His soul, was not like a union between two, but like that between the soul and the body, nos. 3737, 10824. The union of the Lord's Human with the Divine is called union; but that of man with the Divine is called conjunction, no. 2021.


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