{Footnote 1} There are as many degrees of life in man as there
are heavens, and they are opened after death in accordance with
his life (n. 3747, 9594). Heaven is in man (n. 3884). Men who
are living a life of love and charity have in them angelic
wisdom, although it is for the time hidden, but they come into
that wisdom after death (n. 2494). The man who receives from
the Lord the good of love and of faith is called in the Word an
angel (n. 10528).
315. Moreover, any one who has been taught about Divine order can
understand that man was created to become an angel, because the
outmost of order is in him (n. 304), in which what pertains to
heavenly and angelic wisdom can be brought into form and can be
renewed and multiplied. Divine order never stops midway to form there
a something apart from an outmost, for it is not in its fullness and
completion there; but it goes on to the outmost; and when it is in
its outmost it takes on its form, and by means there collected it
renews itself and produces itself further, which is accomplished
through procreations. Therefore the seed-ground of heaven is in the
outmost.
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