Day 9: Monday, March 16

Let not your heart be disturbed; believe in God, and believe in Me. In My Father’s house are many abodes; and if not, I would have told you; I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and take you to Myself, that where I am, you may be also. And whither I go you know, and the way you know. Thomas says to Him, Lord, we know not whither Thou goest, and how can we know the way? Jesus says to him, I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by Me. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him, and have seen Him. John 14:1-7

Now since heaven is from the human race, and heaven is an abiding with the Lord to eternity, it follows that this was the Lord’s end in creation; and since heaven was the end in creation, this is the end of His Divine providence. The Lord did not create the universe for His own sake, but for the sake of those with whom He is to be in heaven; since spiritual love is such that it wishes to give its own to another; and so far as it can do this, it is in its being, in its peace, and in its blessedness. Spiritual love derives this from the Lord’s Divine love, which is such infinitely.

From this it follows, that the Divine love and the Divine providence therefrom have as their end a heaven consisting of men who have become or are becoming angels, upon whom the Lord is able to bestow all the blessings and felicities that belong to love and wisdom, and to communicate these from Himself in them. Nor can He do this in any other way; for there is in them from creation an image and likeness of Himself; the image in them is wisdom, and the likeness in them is love; and the Lord in them is love united to wisdom and wisdom united to love; or, what is the same, is good united to truth and truth united to good. Divine Providence 27:2

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