of the very essence of that Sun.64 It is the first aura of the Principia and the Economy, with- out which no effects could flow from their first causes according to order.65 Generated from this first or universal aura, the human soul receives the life of God immediately; and in this is the ground of hu- man immortality.66 For the Lord enters with it, frames, sustains, and dwells within the human or- ganism or individual forever.
This aura, then, is the plane and determinant of the soul, or human spirituous fluid, or human forma- tive substance, which therefore derives from this aura, or first atmosphere of the universe, its own power of forming, by descent and derivation, all the degrees of the human form in mind and body. 67
Moreover, as is the rank, use, and office of the formative substance in the microcosm, so is the rank, use, and office of the first aura in the macro- cosm.68
63 Compare C. L. 204 and 183.
64 D. L. W. 300.
65 E. A. K. Part II. 272.
66 E. A. K. part II. 245. 352. 168. 300. 350.
67 E. A. K. part I. 635. 636.
68 S E. A. K. part II. 228. 221. 274. 276
SWEDENBORG'S COSMOLOGY.
This first aura, third from the primitives of fini- tion, from the Spiritual Sun, in one sole unique volume fills the extense of the universe.69 It is the universal atmosphere by which the Lord is imme- diately present and immanent alike in the universe as He is in heaven; and acts alike upon and in the lasts of order, as upon and in the firsts; without which indeed there would be no sustentative ground in the universe for the Lord's immediate presence and operation in all things from first to last.70
As belonging to the human conjugial sphere, or being that sphere,71 it is the very sphere of religion itself, and of the Church; and it is that universal sphere or atmosphere of the Divine as to use or operation, which fills all the natural world and all the spiritual world, and elevates all to heaven.72 Being the most universal and most elevated of all, it is that by which all things are created, sustained, and held together, and which effects all arrange- ments into order. It is both creation and provi- dence.73 It is that primal plane of the Divine pro-
69 E. A. K. part II. 312. 339; Principia, part I. Chap. VI. 39. 50.
70 A C. 7270.
71 C. L. 222-225, 386-397, 434 ct seq.
72 T. C. R. 652.
73 A. C. 6483. 6482. 6338.
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