umanity from the Divine in Himself, which is the
Divine Humanity and the Son of God.

--_Doctrine Concerning the Lord, nn._ 29, 35

THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE

When the Lord was in the world, His life was altogether the life of a
love for the whole human race, which He burned to save forever. That
life was of the intensest love by which He united Himself to the
Divine and the Divine to Himself. For being itself, or Jehovah, is
pure mercy from love for the whole human race; and that life was one
of sheer love, as it can never be with any man.

--_Arcana Coelestia, n._ 2253

"COME UNTO ME"

Do you, my friend, flee evil, and do good, and believe in the Lord
with your whole heart and with your whole soul, and the Lord will love
you, and give you love for doing, and faith for believing. Then will
you do good from love, and from a faith which is confidence will you
believe. If you persevere in this, a reciprocal conjunction will take
place, and one that is perpetual, indeed is salvation itself, and
everlasting life.

--_True, Christian Religion, n._ 484

THE TRINITY; THE FULNESS OF HIS BEING

They who are truly men of the Church, that is, who are in love to the
Lord and in charity toward the neighbor, know and acknowledge a Trine.
Still, they humble themselves before the Lord, and adore Him alone,
inasmuch as they know that there is no approach to the Divine Itself,
called the Father, but by the Son; and that all that is holy, and of
the Holy Spirit, proceeds from Him. When they are in this idea, they
adore no other than Him, by Whom and from Whom are all things;
consequently they adore One.

--_Arcana Coelestia, n._ 2329

God is one in essence and in person. This God is the Lord. The
Divinity itself, which is called Jehovah "the Father," is the Lord
from eternity. The Divine Humanity is "the Son" begotten from His
Divine from eternity, and born in the world. The proceeding Divinity
is "the Holy Spirit."

--_Divine Providence, n._ 157

MAN

"Lord, what is man that Thou art mindful of him;
And the son of man that Thou visitest him?"

_Psalm_, VIII, 4

GOD'S UNRELAXED EFFORT

The object of creation was an angelic heaven from the human race; in
other words, mankind, in whom God might be able to dwell as in His
residence. For this reason man was created a form of Divine order. God
is in him, and as far as he lives according to Divine order, fully so;
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