Day 19: Thursday, March 26

Jesus answered them, Do you now believe? Behold, the hour comes, and is now come, that you shall be scattered, everyone to his own, and shall leave Me alone; and I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you might have peace; in the world you shall have affliction; but have confidence, I have overcome the world.

These things Jesus spoke, and lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee, as Thou hast given Him authority over all flesh, that as to everything which Thou hast given Him, He might give to them eternal life. And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Him whom Thou hast sent, Jesus Christ. I have glorified Thee on the earth; I have finished the work that Thou hast given Me to do. And now, O Father, glorify Me with Thyself, with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was. John 16:31 - John 17:5

Arise, give light; for thy light comes, and the glory of Jehovah has risen on thee. Isaiah 60:1

[Simeon prophesied] “a light for a revelation for the nations, and the glory of Thy people Israel.” Luke 2:32

And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon to shine in her, for the glory of God enlightened her, and her lamp is the Lamb. Revelation 21:23

The Lord’s Human, after it was glorified or made Divine, cannot be thought of as human, but as the Divine love in human form; and this so much the more than the angels, who, when they appear (as seen by me), appear as forms of love and charity under the human shape, and this from the Lord. For the Lord from Divine love made His Human Divine, just as man through heavenly love becomes an angel after death, so that he appears, as just said, as a form of love and charity under the human shape.

It is plain from this that by the Lord’s Divine Human, in the celestial sense, is signified the Divine love itself, which is love toward the whole human race, in that it wills to save them and to make them blessed and happy to eternity, and to make its Divine their own so far as they can receive it. This love and the reciprocal love of man to the Lord, and also love toward the neighbor, are what are signified and represented in the Holy Supper—the Divine celestial love by the flesh or bread, and the Divine spiritual love by the blood or wine. Arcana Coelestia 4735:2

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