Part 1
Creation is predicated on the life of mankind otherwise there is no such thing; that life of man is love from the Lord. There is creation or life in every aspect of that life from Divine Love, which is of and from the Lord. When wondering about creation, from what the Lord (the Word) teaches, one must turn to the book 'Divine Love and Divine Wisdom', which is found in the Third Testament. There one learns that creation begins with God; it is of and from God. There it is said that the Lord alone is uncreate and infinite, the very Esse, which in the Word is called Jehovah, the very life itself, and is, thus, Very Love and, is that what proceeds forth from Him and, thus, what has created the spiritual world in which are the Heavens, the world of spirits and hell, and this Love proceeds through heavenly atmospheres from the sun there into various discrete degrees it comes to also create this world, the natural world and, thus. what is known as the physical universe. This proceeding is from a First, who, as we said, is Infinite and Eternal, to the ultimates or to the ends of creation 'as it were' which is dead and inert, and from the lowest degree of life return to the First source in order that there is a conjunction between the Lord and man, for that is Divine Love's character: conjunction and between heaven and earth between Himself and man. It is obvious that unless there is conjunction there is no creation, for without any conjunction there would be no support or continent in which in Divine can dwell in which there is conjunction. Without any conjunction of God with man would be contrary for He is Very Love.
Man has long pondered questions like, why are we here. What is the purpose? Did God create the universe out nothing or out of Himself? And, from his natural reasoning, he starts to search out these questions and tries to discover how the universe came into being along with life as he knows it, up to the man himself. Nonetheless, unless he approaches these questions from knowledge of the spiritual sense of the Word mankind will end in error. Example: he cannot know how God spoke the Word and made the heavens and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.
Most people who have some religious belief worship according to that belief and, even if they don't actively practice their faith they still believe that there is a God, a Divine, as it were, above or higher than this terrestrial world or physical universe, who is accepted as the Creator of all life and looks for what will come to them after one's life on this world ends. It is therefore from God, who is uncreate, who is infinite and eternal, that one needs to look to in order to learn about creation and this can only be understood from His Word and only when he is enlightened through correspondences to know its spiritual sense, otherwise his comprehension remains lacking and is merely natural and from natural understanding creation can never be understood in its true light, but only from the lumen of this world.
In the Word of the Old and New Testaments there is taught that God the Infinite is Divine and cannot be seen by man. Also, from the Word man learns that God was very Man, and in fact, that He put on the natural Human of mankind by becoming born of a woman, conceived of God, who the Lord Jesus Christ call Father, and that after His work of redemption had ended on earth had returned to His throne 'as it were' above the Heavens, and that He is to return again as promised. However, this time as the Divine Human to the spiritual world, that there might be again conjunction between the Lord and man as there was before the man's fall or before his natural life became separated from the spiritual because of sin. In both these Words (the Old and New Testaments) we learn that God had, after man's 'fall', communicated with certain people through their spirits and that in this communication was God's spoken Word for man and that these chosen men wrote down what they spiritually saw and heard for mankind as a medium between God and heaven and mankind. From this we see that the Lord God made Himself known spiritually to certain chosen people and that the natural written Word became adapted to our natural understanding; and who would deny that the angels of Heaven have conjunction and communication with God adapted to their spiritual or celestial understanding? Therefore, why not also is the Lord's Word adapted to man's natural understanding through the written Word of this earth?
This, then, is the purpose of creation: that angels and spirits and, thus man, who after death in this world, come into the next, becoming angels too in order to be conjoined in Heaven with the Lord, the Infinite and eternal God, as man's creation was intended to be. God is the first end, heaven is the cause, or middle end and, this natural world is the effect or the end effect. Doesn't the man of religion look to a life of bliss and joy in the next world when his life ends on this world? Therefore, it is seen that there are two worlds, the spiritual and the natural, and that the Lord, who came in person into this world is no longer in person in either, yet He is with both worlds - with the angels and the spirits of the spiritual and with man of the natural - though the angels know how He is with them; man does not (except those enlightened), for man thinks from time and space of this natural world and angels think spiritually in which there is no space or time, though there is the appearance of space and instead of time there is state.
In order help understand creation we must keep God always before us in our thoughts. One of the attributes of God is, is that He is Omnipresent; He is everywhere and with every man; not only that but He is present in all created things. Still, God is not found in space. How, then is He with man and with the angels of Heaven and with the spirits of the spiritual world? Since what is infinite and eternal or life itself can be divided, nor in space, and since these qualities have presents with all created things celestial, spiritual and natural, then neither angel, spirit, or man on earth are of these, but they are the recipients of these qualities - of Divine good and truth - and thus, are recipients of life and use. Not only are these the recipients for the Divine, but so is all the universe - both the spiritual and the natural worlds - receptacles of the Divine. The quality and essence of the Lord is Divine Love and Divine Wisdom and in these He is Omnipresent, thus He is with man and all created things in what is His own.
A natural idea is understood from space and time; a spiritual idea is not understood through space; it does not have space, but instead state. Therefore, the Lord is not in space, but He is apart from space; yet He is said to be everywhere or omnipresent. One idea, the natural is predicated of space; the other, the spiritual, of state - of the love, of wisdom, of the affections, of the joys which come, therefore, of good and truth, the Divine qualities. The difference between this world and the spiritual is this that in the spiritual world the space there is only an appearance, and objects are not fixed or settled as in this natural world and appear there only according to an angel's affections and thoughts.
From the idea that God is everywhere and that is Man, and from the idea that He created mankind in His image and likeness, and also from the idea that God is not in space but is apart from space, one can understand how the Lord who came on earth is now the Divine Human. For in coming on earth (into the natural state), in putting on the human of mankind, and through overcoming the evils in His human from His mother, the Lord glorified His Human uniting it with the Divine within. Thereby becoming the First and Last, the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end or what is God Man and Man God so that all creation continues to exist and subsist from Him; that there can now be conjunction again between God and man and man and God.
We have spoken of the qualities of Love and Wisdom being the very Esse, the very Life Itself, which is God Himself. We have spoken of God being not in space, but apart from space, and we said that both the spiritual and the natural world, which is the universe, are recipients of His good and His truths, that not just angels, spirits, and men, but all created things in heavens and on earth are recipients and are the receptacle of the Lord's Love and thus of Life. Still, to understand creation one needs to know that Divine Love and Divine Wisdom are substance and form Itself; they are true reality; they are the only reality. But this needs to be further explained. For one to understand how God created all things we must know He did so from Himself through creating vessels or receptacles for Himself, for good and truth, which was said to be infinite qualities of Divine Love and Wisdom. Now being infinite and divine they are not visible even as God is not visible. These qualities can only be seen in Heaven there as the sun and that sun is not the Lord Himself, but is what has first proceeded forth from Him. From that Heavenly sun proceed its qualities in infinite varieties of His love into heaven through the atmospheres that surround and emanate forth. Thus, like our world's sun, there are atmospheres that carry life in various qualities within the sun's heat and light into both worlds; however, this world's atmospheres, which are dead, are enveloped 'as it were' with the spiritual world's atmospheres, which is the first proceeding of Divine Love and Divine Wisdom, and which are carried 'as it were' to the angels of Heaven in various life degrees that are called discrete degrees and these on into even into the natural degree where it there ends in inert and dead substances and matters ending in no life whatever. There atmospheres both continuous and discrete and thus both spiritual and natural subsistence's. They are as discrete degrees the least forms and divide into many substances or forms becoming tempered to the angels of Heaven and to the sprits in the spiritual world. There is similarity with the natural atmospheres; they have both discrete substances and least forms, which we will show later. The only differences is that spiritual atmospheres are receptacles of Divine fire and light, thus of love and wisdom, while natural atmospheres are not receptacles of Divine fire and light, but are receptacles of the fire and light of the natural sun, in which there is no life, but death, it being a dead sun. Thus, there is nothing within these atmospheres from the spiritual sun. However, these atmospheres are environed or are encircled by spiritual atmospheres coming from the heavenly sun. In order to show more concerning these atmospheres let us ask what Christian or religious person would not believe that angels and spirits can speak and hear and breath just men can? Anyone knows that these things are effected through the atmospheres. Thus, it is that from the atmospheres coming from the sun of Heaven thoughts and affections of angels and spirits are held together, just 'as if' if not for circum-pressure and action of the natural atmospheres on earth the interior and exterior body would dissolve away.
The idea that God is in all things and yet not in space and time can be seen in the natural world as in a man's thoughts and affections while his spirit is in the spiritual world, though there, there appears as though there is space, and the Lord is there seen as the sun, yet He - the Divine is within in His dwelling place - in the receptacles of the will and understanding of angels and thus of men whose thoughts and affections are of the Lord. This sun is of the Divine qualities of Love and wisdom that proceeds forth 'as it were' from God, thus creating the universe - both the spiritual and the natural worlds - the spiritual as a means by which life ends in the ultimates and from there through the natural can return through man and subsequently through man becoming angels to the Lord, without, which the purpose of love would not be accomplished, which is the conjunction of God with mankind.
Man has long pondered questions like, why are we here. What is the purpose? Did God create the universe out nothing or out of Himself? And, from his natural reasoning, he starts to search out these questions and tries to discover how the universe came into being along with life as he knows it, up to the man himself. Nonetheless, unless he approaches these questions from knowledge of the spiritual sense of the Word mankind will end in error. Example: he cannot know how God spoke the Word and made the heavens and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.
Most people who have some religious belief worship according to that belief and, even if they don't actively practice their faith they still believe that there is a God, a Divine, as it were, above or higher than this terrestrial world or physical universe, who is accepted as the Creator of all life and looks for what will come to them after one's life on this world ends. It is therefore from God, who is uncreate, who is infinite and eternal, that one needs to look to in order to learn about creation and this can only be understood from His Word and only when he is enlightened through correspondences to know its spiritual sense, otherwise his comprehension remains lacking and is merely natural and from natural understanding creation can never be understood in its true light, but only from the lumen of this world.
In the Word of the Old and New Testaments there is taught that God the Infinite is Divine and cannot be seen by man. Also, from the Word man learns that God was very Man, and in fact, that He put on the natural Human of mankind by becoming born of a woman, conceived of God, who the Lord Jesus Christ call Father, and that after His work of redemption had ended on earth had returned to His throne 'as it were' above the Heavens, and that He is to return again as promised. However, this time as the Divine Human to the spiritual world, that there might be again conjunction between the Lord and man as there was before the man's fall or before his natural life became separated from the spiritual because of sin. In both these Words (the Old and New Testaments) we learn that God had, after man's 'fall', communicated with certain people through their spirits and that in this communication was God's spoken Word for man and that these chosen men wrote down what they spiritually saw and heard for mankind as a medium between God and heaven and mankind. From this we see that the Lord God made Himself known spiritually to certain chosen people and that the natural written Word became adapted to our natural understanding; and who would deny that the angels of Heaven have conjunction and communication with God adapted to their spiritual or celestial understanding? Therefore, why not also is the Lord's Word adapted to man's natural understanding through the written Word of this earth?
This, then, is the purpose of creation: that angels and spirits and, thus man, who after death in this world, come into the next, becoming angels too in order to be conjoined in Heaven with the Lord, the Infinite and eternal God, as man's creation was intended to be. God is the first end, heaven is the cause, or middle end and, this natural world is the effect or the end effect. Doesn't the man of religion look to a life of bliss and joy in the next world when his life ends on this world? Therefore, it is seen that there are two worlds, the spiritual and the natural, and that the Lord, who came in person into this world is no longer in person in either, yet He is with both worlds - with the angels and the spirits of the spiritual and with man of the natural - though the angels know how He is with them; man does not (except those enlightened), for man thinks from time and space of this natural world and angels think spiritually in which there is no space or time, though there is the appearance of space and instead of time there is state.
In order help understand creation we must keep God always before us in our thoughts. One of the attributes of God is, is that He is Omnipresent; He is everywhere and with every man; not only that but He is present in all created things. Still, God is not found in space. How, then is He with man and with the angels of Heaven and with the spirits of the spiritual world? Since what is infinite and eternal or life itself can be divided, nor in space, and since these qualities have presents with all created things celestial, spiritual and natural, then neither angel, spirit, or man on earth are of these, but they are the recipients of these qualities - of Divine good and truth - and thus, are recipients of life and use. Not only are these the recipients for the Divine, but so is all the universe - both the spiritual and the natural worlds - receptacles of the Divine. The quality and essence of the Lord is Divine Love and Divine Wisdom and in these He is Omnipresent, thus He is with man and all created things in what is His own.
A natural idea is understood from space and time; a spiritual idea is not understood through space; it does not have space, but instead state. Therefore, the Lord is not in space, but He is apart from space; yet He is said to be everywhere or omnipresent. One idea, the natural is predicated of space; the other, the spiritual, of state - of the love, of wisdom, of the affections, of the joys which come, therefore, of good and truth, the Divine qualities. The difference between this world and the spiritual is this that in the spiritual world the space there is only an appearance, and objects are not fixed or settled as in this natural world and appear there only according to an angel's affections and thoughts.
From the idea that God is everywhere and that is Man, and from the idea that He created mankind in His image and likeness, and also from the idea that God is not in space but is apart from space, one can understand how the Lord who came on earth is now the Divine Human. For in coming on earth (into the natural state), in putting on the human of mankind, and through overcoming the evils in His human from His mother, the Lord glorified His Human uniting it with the Divine within. Thereby becoming the First and Last, the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end or what is God Man and Man God so that all creation continues to exist and subsist from Him; that there can now be conjunction again between God and man and man and God.
We have spoken of the qualities of Love and Wisdom being the very Esse, the very Life Itself, which is God Himself. We have spoken of God being not in space, but apart from space, and we said that both the spiritual and the natural world, which is the universe, are recipients of His good and His truths, that not just angels, spirits, and men, but all created things in heavens and on earth are recipients and are the receptacle of the Lord's Love and thus of Life. Still, to understand creation one needs to know that Divine Love and Divine Wisdom are substance and form Itself; they are true reality; they are the only reality. But this needs to be further explained. For one to understand how God created all things we must know He did so from Himself through creating vessels or receptacles for Himself, for good and truth, which was said to be infinite qualities of Divine Love and Wisdom. Now being infinite and divine they are not visible even as God is not visible. These qualities can only be seen in Heaven there as the sun and that sun is not the Lord Himself, but is what has first proceeded forth from Him. From that Heavenly sun proceed its qualities in infinite varieties of His love into heaven through the atmospheres that surround and emanate forth. Thus, like our world's sun, there are atmospheres that carry life in various qualities within the sun's heat and light into both worlds; however, this world's atmospheres, which are dead, are enveloped 'as it were' with the spiritual world's atmospheres, which is the first proceeding of Divine Love and Divine Wisdom, and which are carried 'as it were' to the angels of Heaven in various life degrees that are called discrete degrees and these on into even into the natural degree where it there ends in inert and dead substances and matters ending in no life whatever. There atmospheres both continuous and discrete and thus both spiritual and natural subsistence's. They are as discrete degrees the least forms and divide into many substances or forms becoming tempered to the angels of Heaven and to the sprits in the spiritual world. There is similarity with the natural atmospheres; they have both discrete substances and least forms, which we will show later. The only differences is that spiritual atmospheres are receptacles of Divine fire and light, thus of love and wisdom, while natural atmospheres are not receptacles of Divine fire and light, but are receptacles of the fire and light of the natural sun, in which there is no life, but death, it being a dead sun. Thus, there is nothing within these atmospheres from the spiritual sun. However, these atmospheres are environed or are encircled by spiritual atmospheres coming from the heavenly sun. In order to show more concerning these atmospheres let us ask what Christian or religious person would not believe that angels and spirits can speak and hear and breath just men can? Anyone knows that these things are effected through the atmospheres. Thus, it is that from the atmospheres coming from the sun of Heaven thoughts and affections of angels and spirits are held together, just 'as if' if not for circum-pressure and action of the natural atmospheres on earth the interior and exterior body would dissolve away.
The idea that God is in all things and yet not in space and time can be seen in the natural world as in a man's thoughts and affections while his spirit is in the spiritual world, though there, there appears as though there is space, and the Lord is there seen as the sun, yet He - the Divine is within in His dwelling place - in the receptacles of the will and understanding of angels and thus of men whose thoughts and affections are of the Lord. This sun is of the Divine qualities of Love and wisdom that proceeds forth 'as it were' from God, thus creating the universe - both the spiritual and the natural worlds - the spiritual as a means by which life ends in the ultimates and from there through the natural can return through man and subsequently through man becoming angels to the Lord, without, which the purpose of love would not be accomplished, which is the conjunction of God with mankind.
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