Divine Love and Divine Wisdom

16. He is a God who exists; one who does not exist from Himself, but in Himself. He who exists in Himself is God, from whom all things originate.

17. THAT WITHIN THE GOD-MAN, INFINITE THINGS ARE DISTINCTLY ONE.

It is well known that God is infinite, for He is called infinite; but He is called so because He truly is infinite. He is not infinite simply because He is essential Being original: Esse and Existence original: Existere in Himself, but because infinite things are contained within Him. An "infinite" without infinite things within itself is not truly infinite, except in name only. These infinite things within Him cannot be described as "infinitely many" or "infinitely all" because of our natural concept of "many" and "all." The idea of "infinitely many" is limited, and the idea of "infinitely all," while unlimited in theory, is still derived from the limited things we see in the universe. Therefore, since human ideas are natural, a person cannot—even through the highest refinement of thought—reach a true perception of the infinite things in God. An angel, however, whose ideas are spiritual, may through such refinement be elevated above the level of a human, yet even they cannot reach the Divine essence itself.

18. Anyone who believes that God is a Man This refers to the "Divine Humanity," the idea that God possesses the perfect, infinite form of which human beings are a finite reflection. can affirm within themselves that there are infinite things in God. If He is a Man, He has a body and everything belonging to it; thus, He has a face, a chest, an abdomen, loins, and feet, for without these He would not be a man. Having these, He also has eyes, ears, nostrils, a mouth, and a tongue, as well as the internal organs like the heart, the lungs, and their connected systems—all of which, taken together, make a man a man. In a created human being, these components are many and their structures are innumerable; but in the God-Man, they are infinite, with nothing lacking. This is why He possesses infinite perfection. A comparison is made here between the uncreated Man, who is God, and created man, because God is a Man; as it is said in the first chapter of Genesis, man in this world was "created after His image and according to His likeness" (Genesis 1:26–27).

19. That there are infinite things in God is even more apparent to the angels in the heavens where they live. The entire heaven, consisting of millions upon millions of angels, is—in its collective form—like a single man. The same is true for all societies in heaven, whether large or small. Because of this, even an individual angel is a man, for an angel is heaven in its smallest form. That this is the case may be seen in the work ON HEAVEN AND HELL (sections 51 to 87). The form of heaven—as a whole, in its parts, and in its individuals—exists because of the Divine nature that the angels receive. In the same proportion that an angel receives the Divine, he becomes a man in perfect form. This is why angels are said to be in God, and God in them, and why God is "all in all" for them. It is impossible to describe the innumerable things in heaven; and since the Divine constitutes heaven, those inexpressibly many things...