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And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Genesis 1:2
Charity #91
91. 1. Man was created to be a form of love wisdom.
He was created into the image of God, into the likeness of God; 1 and God is Love Itself and Wisdom Itself.
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Heaven and Hell #405
405. Almost all who enter the other life think that hell is the same to everyone, and heaven the same; and yet in both there are infinite varieties and diversities, and in no case is hell or heaven wholly the same to one as to another; as it is impossible that any one man, spirit or angel should ever be wholly like another even as to the face. At my mere thought of two being just alike or equal the angels expressed horror, saying that every one thing is formed out of the harmonious concurrence of many things, and that the one thing is such as that concurrence is; and that it is thus that a whole society in heaven becomes a one, and that all the societies of heaven together become a one, and this from the Lord alone by means of love. 1 Uses in the heavens are likewise in all variety and diversity, and in no case is the use of one wholly the same as and identical with the use of another; so neither is the happiness of one the same as and identical with the happiness of another. Furthermore, the delights of each use are innumerable, and these innumerable delights are likewise various, and yet conjoined in such order that they mutually regard each other, like the uses of each member, organ, and viscus, in the body, and still more like the uses of each vessel and fiber in each member, organ and viscus; each and all of which are so affiliated as to have regard to another's good in their own good, and thus each in all, and all in each. From this universal and individual aspect they act as one.
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1. [Swedenborg's footnote] One thing consists of various things, and receives thereby its form and quality and perfection in accordance with the quality of the harmony and concurrence (Arcana Coelestia 457, 3241, 8003).
There is an infinite variety and never any one thing the same as another (7236, 9002).
It is the same in the heavens (3744, 4005, 7236, 7833, 7836, 9002).
In consequence all the societies in the heavens and all the angels in a society are distinct from each other because they are in different goods and uses (690, 3241, 3519, 3804, 3986, 4067, 4149, 4263, 7236, 7833).
The Lord's Divine love arranges all into a heavenly form, and so conjoins them that they are as a single man (457, 3986, 5598).
