Start by taking a few deep breaths, just breathing in and slowly breathing out. letting the thoughts in your mind settle. Letting your body relax.
And bringing your focus now to your heart.
Feeling the warmth and the life there, of your heart beating. Remind yourself that this experience of being alive is a reception of the Divine life, of the Lord gifting you life.
And as you open your heart to this thought an image of the divine human arrives. It’s beauty and its light is before you. And as you acknowledge this human form, this divine human form, you are brought closer to it.
And as you come closer you start to see parts within it – its skin, muscles, bone, organs. And as you come closer still you brought into focus on one organ. You can feel it’s function. Its essence and how it relates to all the other organs within this human form, of how it connects and of its interdependence to all of the others
And as you come closer still to this organ it also takes a human form. And you recognise it – it is the human of the Logopraxis community. Again, this human also has an essence. It has a function. And it is developing, always growing, always coming into being, becoming created into what is human. And you hear the question. How can this human be nurtured? How can it be cared for?
And you find that you are still being drawn closer to it, and as this happens you start to see what is within it. You notice is skin, its muscles, its bones, its organs. And you as move more inwards you see that each of these components is a Life Group. Each with its own use and function within the human that is the whole community. Each is dependent on all of the rest for its ongoing development.
So you come in closer to one of them, to examine it more deeply and as you do you realise that it too has a human form and within it again are more body parts and organs. And that each one of these are its individual members, offering a use and function to the human that is the Life Group.
And yet still you are moving inwards. Coming closer again to each of these parts, these functions, and as you do each one of these also takes on a human form. And just as with the community and the Life Groups, each of these has an essence, a use. Each one of these, like all the rest, is a unique reception of the Divine Life. Each one of these has for its soul, the Word, the Logos, the Lord.
And with this thought you are moved back out again, back out to the human that is the Life Group, and then back out to the human that is the LP community, and back out to the human that is the all.
You see that each of these levels is connected with thousands of other human forms, too many for any mind to comprehend. And that all are connected, All are images of the one and only real Human.
From the doctrines for Spiritual Christianity
It is worthy of note that just as heaven as a whole presents itself as one entire human being, which is therefore called the Grand Man, so each community in a similar way presents an image of a human being. For the image of heaven as a whole imprints itself on communities and makes them similar to itself, and not only on communities but also on the individual persons within a community. This is where the individuals get their human form from, for each person in an angelic community is heaven in the smallest form it takes. Variations in their human form are determined by the kind of good and truth with them, which explains why each spirit and angel is seen in a form exactly matching his thoughts and affections that he communicates to communities round about. (Arcana Coelestia 6605)
There is a conjugial sphere which, flows in from the Lord through heaven into all things and everything of the universe, even to its ultimates. That love and wisdom, or what is the same, good and truth, proceed from the Lord has been shown above in its own chapter. These two in marriage proceed continually from the Lord, because they are Himself and all things are from Him; and the things that proceed from Him fill the universe; for without this nothing that exists would subsist. (Conjugial Love 222)
The conjugial of good and truth is implanted by creation in the soul of every one, and also in all that follows after the soul. This conjugial fills the universe from first things to last and from man to worm. (Conjugial Love 204)
In the highest sense the Grand Man is the Lord Himself; for it is from Him that heaven has its being, and to Him everything there corresponds … those in the heavens are said to be in the Lord and even in his body, because the Lord is the whole of heaven, and in him they are all allotted regions and functions. (Arcana Coelestia 3637)
The whole of heaven is such that each member is like a focal point for all the others, since each is a focal point for influences coming from all the others by way of heaven’s form. This brings the image of heaven out in everyone, causing each individual to resemble heaven—in other words, to be human. Whatever the whole is like, that is what each part is like, because the parts have to resemble the whole in order to belong to it. (Arcana Coelestia 3633)
Perfection and strength are the product of a like-minded multitude of many individuals who in the heavenly form act as one. This accordance of the many leads to a more perfect and stronger endeavour acting into individual parts.(Arcana Coelestia 3629)
The form of heaven is such that it constantly portrays a universal human in relation to the Lord. Equally clearly, all angels are not only with the Lord but in the Lord. To put it another way, the Lord is with them and in them. (Arcana Coelestia 3638)