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Divine Love and Wisdom #59

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59. We can conclude from this that Divinity is present in absolutely everything in the created universe and that the created universe is therefore the work of Jehovah's hands, as it says in the Word. That is, it is a work of divine love and wisdom, for this is what is meant by "Jehovah's hands." Further, even though Divinity is present in all things great and small in the created universe, there is no trace of intrinsic divinity in their own being. While the created universe is not God, it is from God; and since it is from God, his image is in it like the image of a person in a mirror. We do indeed see a person there, but there is still nothing of the person in the mirror.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.

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Divine Love and Wisdom #16

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16. It can be seen from this that God is a person, and that He is therefore a God having expression - not having expression from Himself, but in Himself. He who has expression in Himself is God from whom springs all else.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.