God’s Divine And Human Nature | NCE Spotlight

Featured quotations from Emanuel Swedenborg's Secrets of Heaven:


2798:2


It is also known that he was born to the Virgin Mary, but this
was a birth like that of any other person. When he was born
again—in other words, was made divine—it was from Jehovah,
who was in him and who was the very essence of his life. The
uniting of his divine and human natures was a mutual, reciprocal
process, so that he united his divine nature with his human
nature and his human nature with his divine. 


2894


Moreover, since the Word means the Lord’s divine humanity, it
means all the truth that tells of and comes from him, in his
kingdom in the heavens and in his church on earth. That is why it
says that in him was life, the life was the light of humankind,
and the light appears in the darkness.


3441:1-2


Because of Abraham my servant means from the Lord’s divine
humanity. This can be seen from the representation of
Abraham as the Lord’s divinity and also as his divine
humanity (discussed in §§2833, 2836, 3251) and from the symbolism
of my servant, where it describes the Lord, as his divine
humanity. Not that his divine humanity is a servant, because it
too is Jehovah (1736, 2156, 2329, 2921, 3023, 3035), but that the
Lord served the human race through it. By it we are saved, as we
never could have been had the Lord not united his humanity with
his divinity, enabling us to mentally gaze on and worship his
human side and in this way approach his divine side. Our
union with divinity itself, called the Father, takes place
through the divine humanity, called the Son. So it takes place
through the Lord, whom spiritual people take to mean his
humanity but heavenly people take to mean divinity itself.
Clearly, then, the Lord’s divine humanity is called a servant
because it serves his divinity by providing us with access to it
and because it serves the human race by saving us. That is what
Abraham my servant symbolizes. . . .