From all this it stands to reason that God is omnipresent in his
design from beginning to end. That he is also omnipresent in hell was
shown in the point before this one [§§ 61 – 62 ].
6. Human beings were created as forms of the divine design.We have 65
been created as forms of the divine design because we have been created
as images and likenesses of God, and since God is the design itself, we
have therefore been created as images and likenesses of that design.
The divine design originally took shape, and it continues to exist,
from two sources: divine love and divine wisdom. We human beings
have been created as vessels for these two things. Therefore the design
that divine love and wisdom follow in acting upon the universe, and
especially upon the angelic heaven, has been built into us.
As a result, heaven in its entirety is a form of the divine design in its
largest possible manifestation. In the sight of God, heaven is like one
human being. The correspondence between heaven and a human being is
in fact complete. There are no communities in heaven that do not answer
to some part, some internal or external organ, of the human body. For
this reason a given community in heaven is said to be in the province of
the liver, the pancreas, the spleen, the stomach, the eye, the ear, or the
tongue, and so on. In fact, the angels themselves know which specific
area within a given part of the human body they inhabit. I was given an
opportunity to learn about this from living experience. I saw a commu-
nity of several thousand angels together in the form of one human being.
From that experience it became clear to me that heaven as a whole is an
image of God, and an image of God is a form of the divine design.
It is important to know that everything that radiates from the sun 66
around Jehovah God in the spiritual world relates to humanness. There-
fore all things that take shape in that world combine to make a human
form, and at their deepest level present that form themselves. As a result,
all the objects that take shape there before the eyes are symbolic of a
human being.
There are animals of every kind in that world. They are likenesses of
the feelings of love and the resulting thoughts that angels have. The same
goes for the tree gardens, flower gardens, and lawns and meadows there.
The angels are also given insights about what feeling this or that object
represents. Surprisingly, when their inner sight is opened up they recog-
nize an image of themselves in the things around them. This happens
because all people are their own love and their own thought. In everyone
there are a variety and multiplicity of feelings and thoughts, some of
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