Divine Love and Wisdom # 287
287. We can also tell that love and wisdom are human by looking at heaven's angels, who are people in full beauty to the extent that they are caught up in love, and therefore in wisdom, from the Lord. The same conclusion follows from what it says in the Word about Adam's being created in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26), because he was created in the form of love and wisdom.
All earthly individuals are born in the human form as to their physical bodies. This is because our spirit, which is also called our soul, is a person; and it is a person because it is receptive of love and wisdom from the Lord. To the extent that our spirit or soul actually accepts love and wisdom, we become human after the death of these material bodies that we are carrying around. To the extent that we do not accept love and wisdom we become grotesque creatures, retaining some trace of humanity because of our ability to accept them.
Psalms 114
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When Israel went forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language;
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Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
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The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
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The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
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What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?
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You mountains, that you skipped like rams; you little hills, like lambs?
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Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
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who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters.
