The Lord consecutively put off the human nature assumed from the mother, and put on a Humanity from the Divine in Himself, which is the Divine Humanity and the Son of God.

—­Doctrine Concerning the Lord, nn. 29, 35

THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE

When the Lord was in the world, His life was altogether the life of a love for the whole human race, which He burned to save forever.  That life was of the intensest love by which He united Himself to the Divine and the Divine to Himself.  For being itself, or Jehovah, is pure mercy from love for the whole human race; and that life was one of sheer love, as it can never be with any man.

—­Arcana Coelestia, n. 2253

“COME UNTO ME”

Do you, my friend, flee evil, and do good, and believe in the Lord with your whole heart and with your whole soul, and the Lord will love you, and give you love for doing, and faith for believing.  Then will you do good from love, and from a faith which is confidence will you believe.  If you persevere in this, a reciprocal conjunction will take place, and one that is perpetual, indeed is salvation itself, and everlasting life.

—­True, Christian Religion, n. 484

THE TRINITY; THE FULNESS OF HIS BEING

They who are truly men of the Church, that is, who are in love to the Lord and in charity toward the neighbor, know and acknowledge a Trine.  Still, they humble themselves before the Lord, and adore Him alone, inasmuch as they know that there is no approach to the Divine Itself, called the Father, but by the Son; and that all that is holy, and of the Holy Spirit, proceeds from Him.  When they are in this idea, they adore no other than Him, by Whom and from Whom are all things; consequently they adore One.

—­Arcana Coelestia, n. 2329

God is one in essence and in person.  This God is the Lord.  The Divinity itself, which is called Jehovah “the Father,” is the Lord from eternity.  The Divine Humanity is “the Son” begotten from His Divine from eternity, and born in the world.  The proceeding Divinity is “the Holy Spirit.”

—­Divine Providence, n. 157

MAN

“Lord, what is man that Thou art mindful of him;
And the son of man that Thou visitest him?”

Psalm, VIII, 4

GOD’S UNRELAXED EFFORT

The object of creation was an angelic heaven from the human race; in other words, mankind, in whom God might be able to dwell as in His residence.  For this reason man was created a form of Divine order.  God is in him, and as far as he lives according to Divine order, fully so; but if he does not live according to Divine order, still God is in him, but in his highest parts, endowing him with the ability to understand truth and to will what is good.  But as far as man lives contrary to order, so far he shuts up the lower parts of his mind or spirit, and prevents God from descending and filling them with His presence.  Then God is in him, but he is not in God.