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Genesis 1:27

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27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

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Divine Love and Wisdom # 19

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19. The presence of infinite things in God is even more obvious to angels because of the heavens where they live. The whole heaven, made up of millions of angels, is like a person in its overall form. Each individual community of heaven, large or small, is the same; and therefore an angel is a person. An angel is actually a heaven in its smallest form (see Heaven and Hell 51-87 [51-86]).

Heaven is in this form overall, regionally, and in individuals because of the divine nature that angels accept, since the extent to which angels accept the divine nature determines the perfection of their human form. This is why we say that angels are in God and that God is in them, and that God is everything to them.

The multiplicity of heaven is indescribable; and since it is Divinity that makes heaven, and therefore Divinity is the source of that indescribable multiplicity, we can see quite clearly that there are infinite things in that quintessential Person who is God.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 2006

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2006. 'Multitude' means truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'a multitude' as truth, dealt with already in 1941, and from the meaning of 'being multiplied' as having reference to truth, dealt with in 43, 55, 913, 983

  
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