15
Ja nyt tuotiin minun eteeni viisaat ja noidat lukemaan tätä kirjoitusta ja ilmoittamaan minulle sen selitys, mutta he eivät voineet sen selitystä ilmoittaa.
Daniel 5:15
Canons of the New Church # 42
42. CHAPTER IV. GOD'S TRINITY WAS PRODUCED AFTER THE WORLD WAS CREATED, AND CAME INTO ACTUAL EXISTENCE IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME, AND THEN DID SO IN GOD INCARNATE, WHO IS THE LORD, THE SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST
1. It has been shown above that God's Trinity did not exist before the world was created, and could not do so; further that there are in God Man three essentials of one Person, and it is from these that God's Trinity is spoken of.
2. That God as the Word came into the world and took to Himself a human in the virgin Mary, and that the "Holy thing" thereby born was called "the Son of the Highest", "the Son of God", "the Only-begotten Son" is well known from the Old Word, where it is prophesied, and from the New Word, where it is described.
3. Seeing then that the Most High God, who is the Father, by means of His Divine proceeding, which is the Holy Spirit, conceived the human in the virgin Mary, it follows that the human born from that conception is "the Son", and the Divine conceiving it is "the Father", and that both of them together are the Lord God the Saviour Jesus Christ, God and Man.
4. It follows, too, that the Divine Truth which is the Word, in which is the Divine Good from the Father, was the seed, from which the human was conceived. It is from the seed that the soul is, and by means of the soul that the body is.
5. For confirmation this arcanum will be mentioned: the spiritual origin of all human seed is truth from good, not however Divine Truth from Divine Good in its infinite and uncreated essence, as it is in the Lord, but in a finite and created form of it. See THE DELIGHTS OF WISDOM CONCERNING CONJUGIAL LOVE220, 245. 1 6. It is well known that the soul adjoins a body to itself to serve it for carrying out uses, and that afterwards it conjoins itself to the body as the latter is of service, and this goes on until the soul becomes the body's, and the body becomes the soul's; this is what the Lord says, That He is in the Father and the Father in Him [John 10:38].
7. It follows from these things that God's Trinity was produced after the world was created, and then it was in God Incarnate, who is the Lord the Saviour Jesus Christ.
Сноски:
1. These nos. are omitted in the Skara Manuscript.
