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.

4072. Verses 4-13 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field, to his flock. And he said to them, I see your father's face, that it is not at all friendly towards me as before; ¹ and the God of my father has been with me. And you yourselves know that with all my strength I have served your father. And your father has deceived me, and has changed my wages in ten ways, and God has not allowed him to do evil to me. If he said thus: The speckled will be your wages, then all the flocks bore speckled. And if he said thus: The variegated will be your wages, then all the flocks bore variegated. And God has taken away your father's cattle and given them to me. And it happened, when the flock came on heat, that I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the he-goats mounting the flock were variegated, speckled, and mottled. And the angel of God said to me in the dream, Jacob. And I said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Lift up now your eyes, and see all the he-goats mounting the flock, variegated, speckled, and mottled; for I have seen everything that Laban is doing to you. I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you made a vow to Me; now rise up, go out of this land, and return to the land of your nativity.

'Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field, to his flock' means a linking of the affections for truth to the good now meant by 'Jacob' - achieved by that good itself; also the use to which those affections were applied when that good departed. 'And he said to them, I see your father's face, that it is not at all friendly towards me as before' means a change of state within the good meant by 'Laban'. 'And the God of my father has been with me' means that the Divine was the author of all that He had. 'And you yourselves know that with all my strength I have served your father' means that He acted by His own power. 'And your father has deceived me, and has changed my wages in ten ways' means the state of good in relation to Himself when, acting of Himself, He applied to Himself the things which constituted that good, and also a very great change in that good. 'And God has not allowed him to do evil to me' means that it was nevertheless unable to cause any hindrance. 'If he said thus: The speckled will be your wages, then all the flocks bore speckled' means His freedom, and that in His freedom the Lord adopted those things - even evils that were linked to the goods. 'And if he said thus: The variegated will be your wages, then all the flocks bore variegated' means even falsities that were linked to them. 'And God has taken away your father's cattle and given them to me' means that those things came from the Divine. 'And it happened, when the flock came on heat' means an intense desire to be joined together. 'That I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream' means the perception of natural good when in obscurity. 'And behold, the he-goats mounting the flock were variegated, speckled, and mottled' means the effect that was produced when natural good meant by 'Jacob' was endowed with such things from this source. 'And the angel of God said to me in a dream, Jacob. And I said, Behold, here I am' means perception from the Divine, and presence within that state of obscurity. 'And he said, Lift up now your eyes' means observation from what was His own. 'And see all the he-goats mounting the flock, variegated, speckled, and mottled' means that such things were being introduced. 'For I have seen everything that Laban is doing to you' means that the proprium of the good meant by 'Laban' was not such as acted of itself. 'I am the God of Bethel' means the Divine within the Natural. 'Where you anointed a pillar' means where the good of truth exists, and the boundary of it. 'Where you made a vow to Me' means that which is holy. 'Now rise up' means a raising up. 'Go out of this land' means a separation from that good. 'And return to the land of your nativity' means becoming joined to the Divine Good of Truth.

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