April 26, 2018

With the Lord ALL is Jehovah

Selection from Arcana Cœlestia ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
In the universal heaven they know no other Father than the Lord, because He and the Father are one, as He Himself has said:
I am the way, the truth, and the life.  Philip saith, Show us the Father; Jesus saith to him, Am I so long time with you, and hast thou not known Me, Philip?  He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father; how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?  believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me?  believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me  (John 14:6, 8-11).
It is the Lord's Human Essence which is called the "Son of man;" which also, after the combats of the temptations, was united to His Divine Essence, so that it was itself also made Jehovah; wherefore in heaven they know no other Jehovah the Father than the Lord. With the Lord all is Jehovah; not only His internal and His interior man, but also the external man, and the very body; and therefore He alone rose into heaven with the body also; as is sufficiently evident in the Gospels, where His resurrection is treated of; as also from the words of the Lord Himself:
Wherefore do thoughts arise in your hearts?  See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself; handle Me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see Me have.  And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet  (Luke 24:38-40).
(Arcana Cœlestia 15; 1729:2)