He is called also a "friend:"—
Ye are My friends if ye do whatsoever I command you (John xv. 14, 15).
But the celestial man, who is a "likeness," is called a "son of God," in John:—
As many as received Him, to them gave He the power to become sons of God, even to them that believe on His name; who were born not of bloods,[1] nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God (i. 12, 13).
52. So long as man is spiritual, his dominion proceeds from the external man to the internal, as is here said: "Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the beast, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." But when he becomes celestial, and does good from love, then his dominion proceeds from the internal man to the external, as the Lord, in David, describes Himself, and thereby also the celestial man, who is His likeness:—
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet, the flock and all cattle, and also the beasts of the fields, the fowl of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas (Ps. viii. 6-8).
Here therefore "beasts" are first mentioned, and then "fowl," and afterwards the "fish of the sea," because the celestial man proceeds from love, which belongs to the will, differing herein from the spiritual man, in describing whom "fishes" and "fowl" are first named, which belong to the understanding, and this to faith; and afterwards mention is made of "beasts."
53. Verse 27. And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him. The reason why "image" is here twice mentioned, is that faith, which belongs to the understanding, is called "His image;" whereas love, which belongs to the will, and which in the spiritual man comes after, but in the celestial man precedes, is called the "image of God."
54. Male and female created He them. What is meant by "male and female," in the internal sense, was well known to the Most Ancient Church, but when the interior sense of the
