No one hath seen the Father, nor heard His voice, nor seen
     His form (John 1:18; 5:37).

85.  But that God is man can scarcely be comprehended by those who judge all things from the sense-conceptions of the external man, for the sensual man must needs think of the Divine from the world and what is therein, and thus of a Divine and spiritual man in the same way as of a corporeal and natural man.  From this he concludes that if God were a man He would be as large as the universe; and if He ruled heaven and earth it would be done through many others, after the manner of kings in the world.  If told that in heaven there is no extension of space as in the world, he would not in the least comprehend it.  For he that thinks only from nature and its light must needs think in accord with such extension as appears before his eyes.  But it is the greatest mistake to think in this way about heaven.  Extension there is not like extension in the world.  In the world extension is determinate, and thus measurable; but in heaven it is not determinate, and thus not measurable.  But extension in heaven will be further treated of hereafter in connection with space and time in the spiritual world.  Furthermore, everyone knows how far the sight of the eye extends, namely, to the sun and to the stars, which are so remote; and whoever thinks deeply knows that the internal sight, which is of thought, has a still wider extension, and that a yet more interior sight must extend more widely still.  What then must be said of Divine sight, which is the inmost and highest of all?  Because thoughts have such extension, all things of heaven are shared with everyone there, so, too, are all things of the Divine which makes heaven and fills it, as has been shown in the preceding chapters.

86.  Those in heaven wonder that men can believe themselves to be intelligent who, in thinking of God, think about something invisible, that is, inconceivable under any form; and that they can call those who think differently unintelligent and simple, when the reverse is the truth.  They add, “Let those who thus believe themselves to be intelligent examine themselves, whether they do not look upon nature as God, some the nature that is before their eyes, others the invisible side of nature; and whether they are not so blind as not to know what God is, what an angel is, what a spirit is, what their soul is which is to live after death, what the life of heaven in man is, and many other things that constitute intelligence; when yet those whom they call simple know all these things in their way, having an idea of their God that He is the Divine in a human form, of an angel that he is a heavenly man, of their soul that is to live after death that it is like an angel, and of the life of heaven in man that it is living in accord with the Divine commandments.”  Such the angels call intelligent and fitted for heaven; but the others, on the other hand, they call not intelligent.