334. I have also said that the working of divine providence continues forever, because all angels grow more perfect in wisdom forever. Each of us does so, though, on whatever level of desire for what is good and true we had when we left this world. This is the level that is perfected to eternity. Anything beyond this level is outside an angel, not within, and whatever is outside cannot be developed within. This is the meaning of the good measure, pressed down, shaken, and overflowing, that would be poured into the laps of people who forgave others and were generous to them (Luke 7:37, 38 [Luke 6:37-38]), people who are living good and caring lives.

43. From the foregoing it can now for the first time be seen that Divine love and wisdom in themselves are substance and form, for they are being and expression itself; and that if they were not such a being and expression as to be substance and form, they would be only a figment of the imagination, which in itself is not anything.