Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Providence (1900) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and united by their ligaments; showing that it is likewise so with love and all that belongs to it, and with wisdom and all the things belonging to it, which are perceived only as one. More on these subjects may be seen in the treatise on the " Divine Love and Wisdom" (n. 14-22), and in the work concerning " Heaven and Hell" (n. 56 and 489). This has been adduced because it is of Angelic Wisdom. 5. III. This one is in a certain image in every created thing. That the Divine Love and Wisdom, which in the Lord are one and proceed as one from Him, are in a certain image in every created thing may be evident-from what is shown throughout the treatise concerning the Divine Love and Wisdom, and especially in n. 47-51, 55- 60, 282-284, 290-295,313-318,319-326,349-357; where it is shown that the Divine is in every created thing, because God the Creator, Who is the Lord from eternity, had produced from Himself the Sun of the spiritual world, and by that Sun all things of the universe; consequently that that Sun, which is from the Lord, and in which the Lord is, is not only the first substance, but is also the only substance from which all things are; and because it is the only substance, it follows that it is in every created thing, but with infinite variety according to uses. Now because Divine Love and Wisdom are in the Lord, and Divine fire and brightness are in the Sun from Him, and from the Sun are spiritual heat and spiritual light, and these two make one, it follows that this one is in a certain image in every created thing. Hence it is that all things in the universe have relation to good and truth, yea, to their conjunction; or, what is the same, that all things in the universe have relation to love and wisdom, and to their conjunction; for good is of love, and truth is of wi...