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Genesis 1:20

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20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

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Genesis 9:3

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3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

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Heaven and Hell #7

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7. It Is the Lord's Divine Nature That Makes Heaven

While we call the total assemblage of angels heaven because they do make it up, what really makes heaven overall and in every specific instance is the divine nature that emanates from the Lord, flowing into angels and accepted by them. The divine nature that emanates from the Lord is the good intrinsic to love and the truth intrinsic to faith. The amount angels accept from the Lord of what is good and what is true determines the extent to which they are angels and are heaven.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.