The philosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg : God, Man and the cosmos

perfection in the inhabited earths of the Universe. Because, and only because, God is Very Man, the only Man, does creation reflect the humanness of the Creator, and everything tends towards the human form, until it reaches its highest form in man.

And it is precisely because God is always Man in first principles that He could and did, in the fulness of time, become Man in ultimates, even as to flesh and bones. ‘The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us’. In Him is the nexus between the Infinite and the finite. In Him was the invisible God made visible. Incarnate Love and Wisdom for a short time trod our earth with consequences of eternal significance. His name is Jesus Christ, the eternal, and everlasting Divine Man.

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