Book
In Revelation 10:9, "And I went unto the angel, saying, give me the little book," signifies the faculty of perceiving the quality of the Word from the Lord.
In Psalm 40:7, this signifies the Word. (Apocalypse Explained 299, Coronis 60)
(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 616)
Heaven and Hell # 59
59. THE ENTIRE HEAVEN, AS ONE WHOLE, RESEMBLES ONE MAN
That heaven in its whole complex resembles one man is an arcanum not yet known in the world, but it is very well known in the heavens. To know this and the specific and particular things relating to it, is the chief thing in the intelligence of the angels there. Indeed, on it many things depend which, without it as their general principle, would not enter distinctly and clearly into the ideas of the angels' minds. Since they know that all the heavens with their societies resemble one man they therefore call heaven the GRAND AND DIVINE MAN 1 -Divine because it is the Divine of the Lord that makes heaven (see above 7-12).
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1. [Swedenborg's footnote] Heaven in its entirety appears in form as a man, and hence heaven itself is called the GRAND MAN (Arcana Coelestia 2996, 2998, 3624-3649, 3636-3643, 3649, 3741-3745, 4625).
