Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom | Page 8

capacities, therefore, were to be taken away, all
that is human would perish; for the human is to think and to speak from
thought, and to will and to act from will. From this it is clear that the
Divine has its seat in man in these two capacities, the capacity to be
wise and the capacity to love (that is, that one may be wise and may
love). That in man there is a possibility of loving [and of being wise],
even when he is not wise as he might be and does not love as he might,
has been made known to me from much experience, and will be
abundantly shown elsewhere.
31. It is because the Divine Essence itself is Love and Wisdom, that all
things in the universe have relation to good and truth; for everything
that proceeds from love is called good, and everything that proceeds
from wisdom is called truth. But of this more hereafter.
32. It is because the Divine Essence itself is Love and Wisdom, that the
universe and all things in it, alive and not alive, have unceasing
existence from heat and light; for heat corresponds to love, and light
corresponds to wisdom; and therefore spiritual heat is love and spiritual
light is wisdom. But of this, also, more hereafter.
33. From Divine Love and from Divine Wisdom, which make the very
Essence that is God, all affections and thoughts with man have their

rise-affections from Divine Love, and thoughts from Divine Wisdom;
and each and all things of man are nothing but affection and thought;
these two are like fountains of all things of man's life. All the
enjoyments and pleasantnesses of his life are from these-enjoyments
from the affection of his love, and pleasantnesses from the thought
therefrom. Now since man was created to be a recipient, and is a
recipient in the degree in which he loves God and from love to God is
wise, in other words, in the degree in which he is affected by those
things which are from God and thinks from that affection, it follows
that the Divine Essence, which is the Creator, is Divine Love and
Divine Wisdom.
34. DIVINE LOVE IS OF DIVINE WISDOM, AND DIVINE
WISDOM IS OF DIVINE LOVE.
In God-Man Divine Esse [Being] and Divine Existere [Taking Form]
are one distinctly (as may be seen above, n. 14-16). And because
Divine Esse is Divine Love, and Divine Existere is Divine Wisdom,
these are likewise one distinctly. They are said to be one distinctly,
because love and wisdom are two distinct things, yet so united that love
is of wisdom, and wisdom is of love, for in wisdom love is, and in love
wisdom Exists; and since wisdom derives its Existere from love (as
was said above, n. 15), therefore Divine Wisdom also is Esse. From
this it follows that love and wisdom taken together are the Divine Esse,
but taken distinctly love is called Divine Esse, and wisdom Divine
Existere. Such is the angelic idea of Divine Love and of Divine
Wisdom.
35. Since there is such a union of love and wisdom and of wisdom and
love in God-Man, there is one Divine Essence. For the Divine Essence
is Divine Love because it is of Divine Wisdom and is Divine Wisdom,
because it is of Divine Love. And since there is such a union of these,
the Divine Life also is one. Life is the Divine essence. Divine Love and
Divine Wisdom are a one because the union is reciprocal, and
reciprocal union causes oneness. Of reciprocal union, however, more
will be said elsewhere.
36. There is also a union of love and wisdom in every Divine work;

from which it has perpetuity, yea, its everlasting duration. If there were
more of Divine Love than of Divine Wisdom, or more of Divine
Wisdom than of Divine Love, in any created work, it could have
continued existence only in the measure in which the two were equally
in it, anything in excess passing off.
37. The Divine Providence in the reforming, regenerating and saving of
men, partakes equally of Divine Love and of Divine Wisdom. From
more of Divine Love than of Divine Wisdom or from more of Divine
Wisdom than of Divine Love, man cannot be reformed, regenerated
and saved. Divine Love wills to save all, but it cam save only by means
of Divine Wisdom; to Divine Wisdom belong all the laws through
which salvation is effected; and these laws Love cannot transcend,
because Divine Love and Divine Wisdom are one and act in unison.
38. In the Word, Divine Love and Divine Wisdom are meant by
"righteousness" and "judgment," Divine Love by "righteousness," and
Divine Wisdom by "judgment;" for this reason "righteousness" and
"judgment" are predicated in