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The Gist of Swedenborg by Emanuel Swedenborg
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visible God, Who is at once Man and God, enters into man. For while
faith is spiritual in essence it is natural in form, for everything
spiritual, in order to be anything with a man, is received by him in
what is natural.

--_True Christian Religion, n._ 339

Man's conjunction with the Lord is not with His supreme Divine Being
itself, but with His Divine Humanity, and by this with the supreme
Divine Being; for man can have no idea whatever of the supreme Divine
Being of the Lord, utterly transcending his thought as it does; but of
His Divine Human Being he can have an idea. Hence the Gospel according
to John says that no one has at any time seen God except the
only-begotten Son, and that there is no approach to the Father save by
Him. For the same reason He is called a Mediator.

--_Arcana Coelestia, n._ 4211


GOD-MAN

In the Lord, God and Man are not two but one Person, yea, altogether
one, as soul and body are. This is plain in many of the Lord's own
utterances; as that the Father and He are one; that all things of the
Father are His, and all His the Father's; that He is in the Father,
and the Father in Him; that all things are given into His hand; that
He has all power; that whosoever believes in Him has eternal life;
that He is God of heaven and earth.

--_Doctrine Concerning the Lord, n._ 60
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