Tajemství nebe # 946
946. Mluvil jsem s několika duchy o skutečnosti, že na zemi pravděpodobně málokdo věří v existenci tolika úžasných věcí na onom světě. Lidé nemají pojem o životě po smrti, až na mlhavou obecnou představu, v níž se utvrdili proto, že svýma očima nevidí žádného ducha ani duši. Dokonce i učenci – ačkoli potvrzují existenci ducha i duše – lpějí na nejrůznějších složitých termínech, které pochopení těchto jevů spíše zamlžují nebo dokonce znemožňují. Z těchto důvodů a také proto, že se tito učenci soustředí na sebe a na materiální svět a jenom zřídka myslí na obecné dobro a na nebe, věří v duchovní skutečnosti ještě méně než smyslově orientovaní lidé. Duchové, s nimiž jsem mluvil, se divili, že lidé mohou být takoví, přestože vědí, že v přírodě je tolik podivuhodností, které ještě ani nejsou dobře prozkoumány. Jako příklad můžeme uvést vnitřní ucho, o němž může být napsána celá kniha plná neuvěřitelných faktů a každý jim věří. Je-li však řečeno něco o duchovním světě, v němž je původ všeho, co je v přírodě, téměř nikdo tomu nevěří, a to proto, že duchovní svět nikdo nevidí.
Apocalypse Revealed # 21
21. To His God and Father. This symbolically means, thus images of His Divine wisdom and of His Divine love.
In the spiritual sense "God and Father" does not refer to two persons, but God means the Divine in respect to wisdom, and Father the Divine in respect to love. For the Lord has in Him two attributes: Divine wisdom and Divine love, or Divine truth and Divine good. These two are meant in the Old Testament by "God" and "Jehovah," and here by "God" and "Father."
Now because the Lord teaches that He and the Father are one, and that He is in the Father and the Father in Him (John 10:30; 14:10-11), therefore "God and Father" does not mean two persons, but the Lord alone. The Divine, moreover, is one and indivisible. Consequently the statement that Jesus Christ has made us kings and priests to His God and Father means, symbolically, that they appear before Him as images of His Divine wisdom and of His Divine love. The image of God consists in these two qualities in people and angels.
It may be seen in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord that the Divine, which in itself is one, is designated by various names in the Word.
That the Lord is also Himself the Father follows from the following declarations. In Isaiah:
...unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given..., (whose) name will be called Wonderful..., God, Mighty One, 1 Father of eternity, Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:6)
In the same prophet:
You, Jehovah, are our Father, our Redeemer from everlasting is Your name. (Isaiah 63:16)
And in John:
"If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him."
Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father...."
Jesus said to him, ."..He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how then can you say, 'Show us the Father'... ...Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me...." (John 14:7-9, 11)
See no. 962 below.
Poznámky pod čarou:
1. The writer follows the rendering of Sebastian Schmidt here, though the word in the original Hebrew text is an adjective modifying "God," as it is interpreted in standard English translations.
