287. That love and wisdom are man can also be evidenced from the fact that the angels of heaven are men and are beautiful to the extent in which they are in love and its wisdom from the Lord. The same can be established from what is said in the Word concerning Adam, that he was created into the likeness and into the image of God (Gen. I, 26), because into the form of love and wisdom. Every man on earth is born into the human form as regards his body, for the reason that his spirit, which is also called his soul, is a man. And this is a man because it is receptive of love and wisdom from the Lord. And to the extent that the spirit or soul of a man receives these, so far he becomes a man after the death of the material body which enveloped him. But so far as he does not receive them, to that extent he becomes a monster which derives something of man from the ability to receive.