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WHY HEAVEN IS IN THE HUMAN FORM.
O angel in all the heavens ever conceives of the Divine under any other than the human form. And what is wonderful, those in the superior heavens are unable to think otherwise of the Divine. This necessity of their thought flows from the Divine itself, and also from the form of heaven according to which their thoughts extend themselves around. For every thought which the angels have has extension into heaven, and their intelligence and wisdom is in proportion to that extension. Hence it is that all there acknowledge the Lord, because in Him only is the Divine Human.
These things have not only been told me by the angels, but it has also been given me to perceive them when I have been elevated into the interior sphere of heaven. Hence it is evident that the wiser the angels are, the more clearly do they perceive this truth. And hence it is that the Lord appears to them; for the Lord appears in a Divine-angelic form which is the human, to those who acknowledge and believe in a visible Divine, but not to those who acknowledge and believe
