ame with a man and with an angel. Every angel and man is his
own love, and a sphere flowing out from his love encompasses every man
and angel. That sphere consists of the good of his love and of the
truth of his love, for love gives forth both, as fire gives forth both
heat and light; from the will of a man or angel it gives forth good, and
from his understanding it gives forth truth. This sphere, when the man
or angel is good, has an extension into the heavens in every direction
according to the character and amount of the love, and into the hells in
every direction when the man or angel is evil. But the sphere of the
love of a man or an angel has a finite extension into a few societies
only of heaven or hell, while the sphere of the Lord's love, being
Divine, has an infinite extension, and creates the heavens themselves.
(A.E., n. 1076.)

The Word of the Lord is wonderful in this respect, that in every
particular of it there is a reciprocal union of good and truth, which
testifies that the Word is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord,
which is Divine good and Divine truth reciprocally united; and also
testifies that in the Word there is a marriage of the Lord with heaven
and the church, which also is reciprocal. There is a marriage of good
and truth, also of truth and good, in every particular of the Word, in
order that it may be a source of wisdom to angels and of intelligence to
men, for from good alone no wisdom or intelligence is born, neither from
truth alone, but from their marriage when the love is reciprocal. This
reciprocal love the Lord sets forth in John:

"He that eateth My flesh and drinketh My blood abideth in Me and I in
him" (vi. 56).

In the same,

"In that day ye shall know, that . . . ye are in Me and I in you. He
that hath My commandments and doeth them, he it is that loveth Me; . . .
and I will love him" (xiv. 20, 21).

The reciprocality is that such are in the Lord and the Lord is in them,
also that whoever loves the Lord, the Lord also will love him. "To have
His commandments" is to be in truths, and "to do them" is to be in good.

Reciprocality is also described by the Lord in His union with the
Father, in these words,

"Philip, . . . How sayest thou, Show us the Father? Believest thou not
that I am in the Father and the Father in Me? . . . Believe Me, that I
am in the Father and the Father in Me" (John xiv. 9-11).

From this reciprocal union of the Divine and the Human in