Arcana Coelestia # 51
51. As regards what the image is, an image is not a likeness but is 'according to a likeness'. Therefore it is said, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness'. A spiritual man is an image, whereas a celestial man is a likeness or exact replica. The spiritual man is the subject in this present chapter, the celestial man in the next. The spiritual man, who is an image, is called by the Lord 'a son of light', as in John,
He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may be sons of light. John 12:35-36.
He is also called 'a friend',
You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. John 15:14-15
The celestial man however, who is a likeness, is called 'a son of God', in John,
As many as received Him, to them He gave power to be sons of God, to those believing in His Name, who were born, not of blood, 1 nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:12-13.
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1. literally, of bloods
Galatians 5
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Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
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Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
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Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
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You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
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For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
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You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
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This persuasion is not from him who calls you.
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A little yeast grows through the whole lump.
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I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.
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But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.
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I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.
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For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
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For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
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But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one another.
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But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
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But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
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Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
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idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
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envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
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gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
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Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
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If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.
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Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
