Capítulo 1 (EL CIELO): El Dios del Cielo es el Señor

2. Lo primero será saber quien es el Dios del cielo, puesto que de ello dependen las demás cosas. En el cielo entero sólo el Señor es reconocido por Dios del cielo y ningún otro. Allí dicen, como Él mismo enseñó:

Que Él es uno con el Padre; que el Padre es en Él y Él en el Padre; que quien ve a Él, ve al Padre y que todo lo Santo procede de Él (Juan 10:30, 38; 14:9-11; 16:13-15).

He hablado varias veces con los ángeles sobre este particular, y siempre han dicho, que en el cielo no se puede partir lo Divino en tres, porque saben y sienten que la Divinidad es única, y que es única en el Señor. También han dicho, que los de la iglesia que llegan del mundo, teniendo la idea de tres Divinidades (Divinas Personas), no pueden ser admitidos en el cielo, puesto que su pensamiento pasa continuamente de uno a otro, y allí no es permitido pensar tres y decir uno; porque cada uno en el cielo habla por el pensamiento, siendo así que allí el hablar es pensar, o sea el pensar es hablar, por lo cual los que en el mundo han dividido la Divinidad en tres, formándose separada idea de cada uno, y no habiéndolos reunido y concentrado en el Señor, no pueden ser recibidos, porque en el cielo tiene lugar una comunicación de todo pensamiento; por lo cual si allí entrase alguien que pensara tres y dijera uno, sería en seguida descubierto y rechazado. Pero hay que saber que todos aquellos que no han separado la verdad del bien, o sea la fe del amor, al ser instruidos en la otra vida, reciben el celestial concepto del Señor de que Él es el Dios del universo. Otra cosa sucede con los que han separado la fe de la vida, es decir, los que no han vivido conforme a los preceptos de la verdadera fe.

719. It is said that the Sensual falsifies and adulterates the truths of the Word, but it is important to know how this can falsify and adulterate the truths of the Word; for those who do not know how this is done, and the nature of the Word, might suppose that because the truths of the Word are truths, and exist in the sense of its letter, that they cannot become falsities. An example from nature will serve to illustrate this and make it clear to the natural man. It appears to the eye as though the sun were carried round the earth every day, and also once every year, and it is therefore said in the Word that the sun rises and sets, and causes day, noon, evening, and night, also the seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter, and thus days and years, and yet the sun remains unmoved, while the earth revolves daily, and is carried round the sun yearly; the progression of the sun is therefore merely an appearance, and thus a fallacy. When therefore the truth is known and received that it is not the sun but the earth that moves, then both become true, namely, that the sun remains immovable in the centre of its own system, and that it has its progression; that it remains immovable is true for the rational man, and that it has its progression is true for the sensual, thus both are true, actually for the rational, and apparently for the sensual man. Yet if the rational man does not throw light on that phenomenon, then the false idea is believed that the sun actually progresses, and thus the truth that not the sun but the earth has a motion of its own is falsified, but it is not falsified when the rational man throws light upon the matter. The case is similar with every particular of the Word in the sense of its letter, since this sense, being the ultimate, is natural, and is adapted to the apprehension of the sensual man, thus of children and of the simple; therefore most things in that sense are appearances of truth, and unless these are perceived from a spiritual, that is to say, from an enlightened understanding, they become falsities, for they are then believed to be actually and not merely in appearance true. But it is otherwise when they are perceived at the same time understandingly and spiritually, for then all things of the Word become true, in the genuine sense actually true, and in the sense of the letter apparently true, as stated above concerning the sun. From these things it is evident how innumerable are the things in the Word that are falsified and adulterated - as that God tempts, that He is angry, that He does evil, that He casts into hell - similarly, that at the day of the Last Judgment the Lord will come in the clouds of heaven, that then the sun and the moon will withdraw their light, and that the stars will fall from heaven. Also that the world and the universe will perish, and a new creation of all things take place; besides other things of a similar kind, which are truths of the sense of the letter of the Word, but which become falsities if they are not at the same time seen from an enlightened understanding. But in what follows it shall be explained how faith alone, which is faith separated from charity, falsifies all things of the Word.