Divine Love and Wisdom (Harleys) n. 22

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22. It can also be seen from a man as in a mirror that infinite things are one distinctly in God-Man. In man there are many and innumerable things, as was said above, but yet a man feels them as one. From sense [experience] he does not know anything about his brains, his heart and lungs, his liver, spleen and pancreas, or about the innumerable things in his eyes, ears, tongue, stomach, generative organs and the rest; and because he does not know these things from sense [experience] he seems to himself a unity. The reason is that all these things are in such a form that not one can be lacking, for it is a form recipient of life from God-Man as was shown above (n. 4-6). As a result of the order and connection of all things in such a form, there is presented the sense and then the idea as if there were not many and innumerable things, but as if they were one. From these facts it can be concluded that the many and innumerable things which make, as it were, one in a man, in Very Man Who is God, are one distinctly, indeed most distinctly.


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