Divine Love and Divine Wisdom

...are from the Divine, it is evident that there are infinite things in the Essential Man original: "Very Man," meaning the absolute or true prototype of humanity, who is God.

20. The same conclusion may be formed from the created universe, when it is regarded with a view to uses In this context, "uses" refers to the functional purposes or beneficial services that every part of creation performs. and their correspondences. However, before this can be understood, some things must be explained first as an illustration.

21. Since there are infinite things in the God-Man—which appear in the heavens, in angels, and in men as if in a mirror—and since the God-Man is not limited by space (as was shown above, sections 7, 8, 9, 10), it may in some degree be seen and understood how God may be omnipresent, omniscient, and all-providing. It also shows how, as a Man, He could create all things, and can, as a man, preserve the things He created in their proper order for eternity.

22. That infinite things are distinctly one in the God-Man may also appear evident in a human being as if in a mirror. In a person, there are many and countless parts, as was said above, but a person still perceives them as a single whole. From physical sensation, one does not know anything about their brain, heart and lungs, liver, spleen, and pancreas; nor of the countless things in the eyes, ears, tongue, stomach, reproductive organs, and the rest. As a person does not know these things through the senses, they seem to themselves to be a single unit. The reason is that all those things are in such a form that not one of them can be missing; for a human being is a form designed to receive life from the God-Man, as was shown above in sections 4, 5, and 6. The order and connection of all these parts in such a form produces a feeling and an idea as if they were not many and countless things, but a single one. From this, it may be concluded that the many and countless things which constitute a single whole in a person are distinctly—indeed, most distinctly—one in the Essential Man original: "Very Man", who is God.

23. THAT THERE IS ONE GOD-MAN, FROM WHOM ALL THINGS EXIST.

All the principles of human reason agree, and as it were converge on this point: that there is one God, the Creator of the universe. Therefore, a rational person, by virtue of the universal capacity of understanding, thinks this way and can think no other way. Tell any person of sound reason that there are two creators of the universe, and you will find a resistance arising within yourself, possibly from the mere sound of the words in your ear. From this, it is evident that all the principles of human reason join and converge in this: GOD IS ONE.

There are two reasons why this is so. Firstly, the faculty of thinking rationally, viewed in itself, is not the human being's own, but is God’s presence within them. Human reason depends on this common foundation, and this common foundation causes the mind to see, as if by its own power, that God is one. Secondly, a person, by means of that faculty, either exists in the light of heaven or derives the common basis of their thought from it; and it is a universal truth of the light of heaven that God is one. The case is different if a person, by using that faculty, has corrupted the lower parts of their understanding...