and wisdom from the
Lord; also, that of the Lord nothing but what is infinite can be
predicated, and of man nothing but what is finite.

232. These three degrees with the angels are called Celestial, Spiritual,
and Natural; and for them the celestial degree is the degree of love, the
spiritual the degree of wisdom, and the natural the degree of uses. These
degrees are so called because the heavens are divided into two kingdoms,
one called the celestial, the other the spiritual, to which is added a
third kingdom wherein are men in the world, and this is the natural
kingdom. Moreover, the angels of whom the celestial kingdom consists
are in love; the angels, of whom the spiritual kingdom consists are in
wisdom; while men in the world are in uses; therefore these kingdoms
are conjoined. How it is to be understood that men are in uses will be
shown in the next Part.

233. It has been told me from heaven, that in the Lord from eternity,
who is Jehovah, before His assumption of a Human in the world, the two
prior degrees existed actually, and the third degree potentially, as
they do also with angels; but that after the assumption of a Human in
the world, He put on over these the third degree, called the natural,
thereby becoming Man, like a man in the world; but with the difference,
that in the Lord this degree, like the prior degrees, is infinite and
uncreate, while in angel and in man they are all finite and created. For
the Divine which, apart from space, had filled all spaces (n. 69-72),
penetrated even to the outmosts of nature; yet before the assumption of
the Human, the Divine influx into the natural degree was mediate through
the angelic heavens, but after the assumption it was immediate from
Himself. This is the reason why all churches in the world before His
Advent were representative of spiritual and celestial things, but after
His Advent became spiritual-natural and celestial-natural, and
representative worship was abolished. This also was the reason why the
sun of the angelic heaven, which, as was said above, is the first
proceeding of His Divine Love and Divine Wisdom, after the assumption
of the Human shone out with greater effulgence and splendor than before
the assumption. And this is what is meant by these words in Isaiah:

In that day the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun,
and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven
days (30:26).

This is said of th