Those who worship one God in whom there is a divine trinity and
who is therefore one person become more and more alive, and become
angels on earth. Those, however, who convince themselves to believe in a
plurality of gods because there is a plurality of divine persons become
more and more like a statue with movable joints, inside which stands
Satan, talking through its hinged mouth.
5. The plurality of gods in ancient times, and nowadays as well, has no 24
other source than a misunderstanding of the underlying divine reality.In § 8
above I showed that the oneness of God is written into each human
mind at the deepest level, since it is central to all things that flow from
God into our souls. It has not yet come down from there into our intel-
lect, however, because we have been lacking concepts we need in order to
go up toward God. Each of us needs to make a pathway for God [Isaiah
40 : 3 ], meaning we need to prepare ourselves to receive God, and this
preparation requires certain concepts.
The concepts we have been lacking are listed below. Their lack has
deprived our intellect of the penetration to see that there is one God, that
there can be only one underlying divine reality, and that all things in the
material world come from that underlying reality.
(a) Until now, no one has known anything about the spiritual world,
where there are spirits and angels and where we go after we die. (b) The
spiritual world has a sun that is pure love from Jehovah God, who is
within that sun. (c) The heat from that sun is essentially love, and its light
is essentially wisdom. (d) As a result, everything in that world is spiritual
and affects us in our inner selves, forming our will and our intellect at
that level. (e) By means of that sun, Jehovah God produced not only the
spiritual world and all the countless spiritual things in it, which are sub-
stantial, but also the material world and all the countless material things
in it, which are physical. (f ) Until now, no one has known the difference
between “spiritual” and “earthly,” or even what “spiritual” essentially
means. (g) No one has known that there are three levels of love and wis-
dom that have been used to structure the angelic heavens. (h) No one has
known that the human mind is differentiated into the same number of
levels so that we can be lifted to one of the three heavens after death,
depending on our life and faith. (i) Lastly, none of the above would be
the case for one instant were it not for the underlying divine reality—the
Absolute in itself; the First and the Beginning from which all things exist.
Even though these are the concepts we need in order to go higher and
recognize the divine reality, they have been lacking until now.
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