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Divine Love and Wisdom #31

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Yiya esigabeni / 432  
  

31. It is because the divine essence itself is love and wisdom that everything in the universe involves what is good and what is true. Everything that flows from love is called good, and everything that flows from wisdom is called true. But more on this later [83-102].

  
Yiya esigabeni / 432  
  

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

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Divine Love and Wisdom #44

Funda lesi Sigaba

  
Yiya esigabeni / 432  
  

44. Divine love and wisdom are substance and form in themselves, thus the one and only absolute. We have just established above that Divine love and wisdom are substance and form; and we have already said as well that the Divine being and expression are being and expression in itself. 1 We cannot say that they are being and expression from itself, because this involves a beginning - and a beginning moreover from something in it which is being and expression in itself. Yet being and expression itself in itself exists from eternity. Being and expression itself in itself is also something not created, and everything that is created can exist only from something that is not created. Furthermore, whatever is created is also finite, and something finite can come into being only from something that is infinite.

Imibhalo yaphansi:

1. See no. 17.

  
Yiya esigabeni / 432  
  

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