Le Seigneur, dans son essence, est infini. Il est la source de toute énergie, la source de la réalité elle-même. Son amour est d'une telle puissance que nous serions détruits par sa chaleur directe, qui est infiniment plus grande que la chaleur du soleil fini. Sa sagesse, le déversement direct de Son amour, est d'une telle puissance que nous serions aveuglés par son éclat, qui est infiniment plus brillant que la lumière du soleil fini. Son immensité - qui est au-delà de l'immensité - est inaccessible à nos pouvoirs imaginatifs finis. Dans son essence, il est inconnaissable pour nous.

Pourtant, nous le connaissons. Comment ? Les Ecrits disent que Son amour et Sa sagesse se projettent sous une forme humaine, puis passent à travers cette forme presque comme un filtre pour venir à nous comme vérité divine. Cette vérité est comme un récipient qui se conforme à notre esprit, suffisamment pour que nous puissions nous accrocher à une idée du Seigneur et recevoir Son amour. Nous pouvons avoir des idées qui sont remplies du Seigneur et avoir l'impression de Le connaître, bien qu'en réalité ce que nous savons ne soit que la quantité que nous pouvons supporter.

Cette vérité divine est, elle-même, "le fils unique". C'était le fils en tant qu'âme à l'intérieur de l'homme physique Jésus ; c'était le fils en tant que signification intérieure de l'Ancien Testament ; c'était le fils tel qu'exprimé par le Seigneur d'autres manières avant Moïse, et c'est encore le fils maintenant en tant que signification intérieure de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament ensemble. Elle connaît le Père - l'amour qui est l'essence du Seigneur - et, en fait, elle nous déclare le Père, si seulement nous voulons bien l'écouter.

(références: Arcanes Célestes 2025 [4], 4211, 4724, 5321 [2], 6849, 6887, 7211, 8705, 10579)

2025. That 'I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land of your sojournings' means that the Lord acquired to Himself by His own powers all things meant by 'the land of sojournings' is clear from the meaning of 'sojourning' as receiving instruction, dealt with in 1463. And because man acquires life to himself chiefly through instruction in facts, matters of doctrine, and cognitions of faith, sojourning is consequently the life so acquired. When applied to the Lord it is the life which He obtained for Himself through cognitions, through the conflicts that constituted temptations, and through victories in temptations; and because He obtained it by His own powers, this is what 'the land of your sojournings' means here.

[2] That the Lord obtained all things for Himself by His own powers, and by His own powers united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence and Divine Essence to Human Essence, and that He alone in this way became righteousness, is quite clear in the Prophets, as in Isaiah,

Who is this coming from Edom, marching in the vast numbers of His strength? I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with Me. I looked around and there was no one helping; and I was astonished that there was no one upholding; therefore My own arm brought Me salvation. Isaiah 63:1, 3, 5.

'Edom' stands for the Lord's Human Essence, 'strength' and 'arm' for power. Plain statements to the effect that He acted from His own power are contained in the phrases 'no one helping' and 'no one upholding', and in that about His own arm bringing Him salvation.

[3] In the same prophet,

He saw that there was no one, and wondered that there was nobody to intercede; and His own arm brought salvation to Him, and His righteousness upheld Him. And He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on His head. Isaiah 59:16-17.

This similarly means that He acted by His own power, and in so doing became righteousness. That the Lord is righteousness is stated in Daniel,

Seventy weeks have been decreed to atone for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. Daniel 9:24.

And in Jeremiah,

I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and He will reign as king and act with understanding, and He will execute judgement and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell in confidence. And this is His name which they will call Him, Jehovah our Righteousness. Jeremiah 23:5-6; 33:15-16.

For this reason He is also called 'the Habitation of Righteousness' in Jeremiah 31:23; 50:7, and 'wonderful' and 'Hero' in Isaiah 9:6.

[4] The reason why the Lord so many times attributes to the Father that which is His own has been explained above in 1999, 2004; for Jehovah was within Him, and so within every single part of Him. Something similar in man may be used for illustration, although there can be no comparison. Within man is his soul, and because it is within him, the soul is within every individual part of him, that is to say, within every individual part of his thinking and every individual part of his activity. Anything that does not have his soul within it is not part of him. The Lord's soul was Life itself or Being (Esse) itself, which is Jehovah, for He was conceived from Jehovah; thus Life itself was present within every individual part of Him. And because Life itself, or Being (Esse) itself, which is Jehovah, belonged to Him in the way that the soul does to man, so that which was Jehovah's was His, which is what the Lord says in His statements about His being in the bosom of the Father, John 1:18, and about all things that the Father has being His, John 16:15; 17:10-11.

[5] From good which is Jehovah's He united the Divine Essence to the Human Essence, and from truth united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence, and so achieved every single thing all from Himself. Indeed His Human was left to Itself in order that of Himself He might fight against all the hells and overcome them; and because He had life within Himself, as stated, which was His own, He overcame them by His own power and strength, as is also clearly stated in the places quoted from the Prophets. So then, because He acquired all things to Himself by His own powers, He became Righteousness, cleared the world of spirits of hellish genii and spirits, and in so doing rescued the human race from destruction - for the human race is governed by means of spirits - and thus redeemed it. This is why the Old Testament Word speaks so often of Him as Rescuer and Redeemer, and also Saviour, as His name Jesus describes.