His Human which was in outmosts, and not, as before, from His
presence or abode in the men of the church; for these had wholly
forsaken the truths and goods of the Word, in which the Lord had
previously had His dwelling-place with men. This was the chief reason
for the Lord's coming into the world, also for making His Human Divine;
for He thus put Himself into possession of a power to hold all things of
heaven and all things of hell in order for ever. This is meant by

"Sitting at the right hand of God" (Mark xvi. 19).

"The right hand of God" means Divine omnipotence, and "to sit at the
right hand of God" means to be in that omnipotence through the Human.
That the Lord ascended into heaven with His Human glorified even to
outmosts He testifies in Luke:

Jesus said to the disciples, "See My hands and My feet, that it is I
Myself; handle Me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye
behold Me having" (xxiv. 39).

This the Lord said just after His resurrection. "Flesh and bones" are
the outmosts of the human body, on which its strength depends. (A.E.,
n. 1087.)

Divine truth is what is called holy, but only when it is in its outmost,
and its outmost is the Word in the sense of the letter; therefore the
Divine truth there is holy, and may be called a holy place, and for the
reason that that sense contains and encloses all the holy things of
heaven and the church. The appearance is that Divine truths in the
heavens, which are called spiritual and celestial, are more holy than
the Divine truths in the sense of the letter of the Word, which are
natural; but the Divine truths in the heavens, which are called
spiritual and celestial, are comparatively like the lungs and heart in
man, which form the chest only when they are encompassed by ribs, and
enclosed in the pleura and diaphragm; for without these integuments, and
even unless connected with them by bonds, they could not perform their
vital functions. The spiritual things of the Word are like the
breathing of the lungs, its celestial things are like the systole and
diastole of the heart, and its natural things are like the pleura, the
diaphragm, and the ribs, with the moving fibers attached, by which the
motions are made reciprocal.

Again, the spiritual and celestial things of the Word are comparatively
like the holy things of the tabernacle, which consisted of the table
upon which was the shew bread, the golden altar upon which was the
incense,