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El Cielo y el Infierno #2

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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.

  
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Juan 14:9-11

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9 Jesús le dice: ¿Tanto tiempo hace que estoy con vosotros, y no me has conocido, Felipe? El que me ha visto, ha visto (también) al Padre; ¿cómo, pues, dices tú: Muéstranos el Padre?

10 ¿No crees que yo soy en el Padre, y el Padre en mí? Las palabras que yo os hablo, no las hablo de mí mismo; mas el Padre que permanece en mí, él hace las obras.

11 Creedme que yo soy en el Padre, y el Padre en mí; de otra manera, creedme por las mismas obras.

      

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Apocalypse Explained #26

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26. (Verse 5) And from Jesus Christ. That this signifies, from the Lord as to the Divine Human, is evident from the fact that this was the name of the Lord in the world, thus the name of His Human; but, as to His Divine, His name was Jehovah and God. It is called the Divine Human, because the Lord made His Human Divine when He was in the world; for He united it to His Divine, which was in Him from conception, and which He had as a soul from the Father, consequently, which was His life. For the soul of every one is his life; and the body, which is human, lives from it; therefore, when the Divine was united to the Human in the Lord, as the soul to the body, it is called the Divine Human. (That it is according to the doctrine of the church, that, as the soul and body make one man, so the Divine and Human make one Christ, as also that His Divine and Human were one person, may be seen above, n. 10.) They therefore, who think of the Lord's Human and not at the same time of His Divine, will on no account admit the expression "Divine Human;" for they think separately of His Human and of His Divine, which is like thinking of a man separately from his soul or life, which, however, would not be to think of the man at all; still less of the Lord. Because such a separate idea is in their thought, they pray the Father to have compassion for the sake of the Son; when, nevertheless, the Lord Himself should be prayed to have compassion, in whom, according to the universal doctrine of the church, the Divine is such as that of the Father; for that doctrine teaches, that as the Father, so also the Son, is uncreate, infinite, eternal, almighty, God, and Lord; and neither is before or after the other, nor greater or less than the other (from the Athanasian Creed). This is also in accordance with the doctrine taught by the Lord Himself, which is; That He and the Father are one; 1 and that he who seeth Him seeth the Father, 2 because He is in the Father and the Father in Him; 3 that He is the way, the truth, and the life; 4 and that no one cometh to the Father but by Him. 5 It is therefore evident how much they turn aside from the way and from the truth, who pass by the Lord, and approach the Father directly. But as I have conversed a good deal upon this subject with angels, and also with spirits, who, when they lived in the world, belonged to the Reformed Church, and some to the Papal religion, I wish to relate these things in the following pages; from which it will be seen what kind of light the church would have concerning the Divine, which is its first and primary, if the Divine Human of the Lord were acknowledged and believed.

Notas a pie de página:

1. [NCBS note: John 10:30]

2. [NCBS note: John 12:45]

3. [NCBS note: John 14:11]

4. [NCBS note: John 14:6]

5. [NCBS note: John 14:6]

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.