 | John Clowes - 1819 - 354 pages
...Verse 24. God is a Spirit, 8tc. In all the heavens there is tto ether idea of God but the idea of ft man ; the reason is, because heaven in the whole and in part is in form as a man, and the divine [principle], which is with the angels, makes heaven. It is owing to this circumstance of God being... | |
 | 1826 - 398 pages
...and Wisdom, but two pages before the passage quoted by your correspondent XANTHUS, — he says, "that in all the heavens, there is no other idea of God, than of a Man." And why have they this idea ? " Because they can think only according to the general and... | |
 | 1841 - 766 pages
...ancients" declared, and Swedenborg confirms by the authority of his visions in the World Spiritual. In all the heavens there is no other idea of God than that of a man. When God came into the world (by the apotheosis of Jesus), the humanity of the little man, or microcosmus,... | |
 | Leonard Woods - 1846 - 180 pages
...intrinsic nature. 1. He held that God is very man. I quote his words. (Divine love and wisdom, Sect. 11.) " God is very man. In all the heavens, there is no other idea of God, than of a man. The reason is, because heaven, in the whole, and in part, is in form as a man, and the Divine... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg - 1852 - 446 pages
...only in the affections, is not known, because it does not appear, or is not seen. That God is truly Man. In all the heavens, there is no other idea of God, than as of a Man. The reason is, because heaven in the whole, and in part, is in form as a man, and the... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg - 1853 - 592 pages
...evident that God is omnipresent, from the firsts to the lasts of his order. — TCR 64. God is very 27. In all the heavens there is no other idea of God than that of Man: the reason is, because heaven in the whole, and in part, is in form as a man, and the Divine,... | |
 | 1859 - 926 pages
...himself. What nature will he honor who honors not the HUMAN V — Aphorisms on Man, by REV. JC LAYATEB. " In all the heavens there is no other idea of God than that of a man. The reason is that heaven, in the whole and in part, is in form as a man, and the Divine which is witli the angels... | |
 | William White - 1867 - 710 pages
...Bible yields no sanction to such timidity, but everywhere frankly ascribes to God the qualities of Man. ' In all the Heavens there is no other idea of God than ' that of a Man : it is impossible for the Angels to think of ' Him otherwise. The Ancients, from the wise to the simple,... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg, Samuel Mills Warren - 1880 - 868 pages
...the universe, and at the same time the Kedeemer and Eegenerator, are all propagated. (TC It. n. 15.) GOD is VERY MAN. In all the heavens there is no other idea of God than of a Man. The reason is, that heaven is a Man in form, in whole and in part, and the Divine which is... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg - 1890 - 500 pages
...the whole earth ; and this solely for the reason that the Lord is not in space. GOD is VERY MAN. xX. In all the heavens there is no other idea of God than that He is Man, because heaven as a whole and in part is in form like man, and because the Divine which... | |
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Man can have no idea of any thing greater than Man, as a cup cannot contain more than its capaciousness. But God is a man, not because he is so perciev'd by man, but because he is the creator of man. 
