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Divine Being from images which they see with their eyes and from idols which they can touch. Still, however, the Lord conjoins Himself with them by the good of charity and obedience in their gross idea. (A. (J. 4211.)

The primary principle of the church is, to acknowledge a God, believe in Him and love Him. They who are born within the church ought to acknowledge the Lord, his Divinity and his Humanity, and to believe in Him and love Him; for from Him is all salvation. The Lord teaches this in John: iii. 36; vi. 40; xi. 25, 26.

All they who are of the church, and in light from heaven, see the Divinity in the Lord, and this in his Humanity. But they who are not in the light of heaven, see nothing in Him but his Humanity; when yet Humanity and Divinity are so united in Him, that they are one [thus constituting a Divine Humanity], as He also taught, John xvii. 10.

An idea of a trine in one person is had, when it is thought that the Father is in, and that the Holy Spirit proceeds from, the Lord. So that the Trinity in Him is the Divinity itself which is called Father, the Humanity which is called Son, and the Divine Proceeding which is called the Holy Spirit [like the trinity in man, of soul, body, and their proceeding activity], (A. C. 10,816-10,822.)

It is the Lord's Divine Humanity and Holy Pro-

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