1. Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence

Divine Providence Is the Form of Government Exercised by the Lord's Divine Love and Wisdom

To understand what divine providence is--that it is the way the Lord's divine love and wisdom govern us--it is important to be aware of the following things, which were presented in my book on the subject.

In the Lord, divine love is a property of divine wisdom and divine wisdom is a property of divine love (Divine Love and Wisdom 34-39).

Divine love and wisdom cannot fail to be and to be manifested in others that it has created (Divine Love and Wisdom 47-51).

Everything in the universe was created by divine love and wisdom (Divine Love and Wisdom 52, 53, 151-156).

Everything in the created universe is a vessel of divine love and wisdom (54-60 [55-60]).

The Lord looks like the sun to angels; its radiating warmth is love and its radiating light is wisdom (Divine Love and Wisdom 83-88, 89-92, 93-98, 296-301).

The divine love and wisdom that emanate from the Lord constitute a single whole (Divine Love and Wisdom 99-102).

The Lord from eternity, who is Jehovah, created the universe and everything in it from himself and not from nothing (Divine Love and Wisdom 282-284, 290-295). These propositions may be found in the work titled Angelic Wisdom about Divine Love and Wisdom.

151. The Lord created the universe and everything in it by means of that sun that is the first emanation of divine love and wisdom. "The Lord" means God from eternity or Jehovah, who is called the Father and the Creator, because as explained in Teachings for the New Jerusalem on the Lord, the Lord and the Father are one. When I return to the topic of creation below [282-357], therefore, I will refer to "the Lord."

296. There are three elements in the Lord which are the Lord - the Divine element of love, the Divine element of wisdom, and the Divine element of useful endeavor - and these three are manifested in appearance outside of the sun of the spiritual world, the Divine element of love by warmth, the Divine element of wisdom by light, and the Divine element of useful endeavor by the atmosphere which is their containing medium. It may be seen in nos. 89-92, 99-102, and 146-150 above that from the sun in the spiritual world emanate heat and light, and that heat emanates from the Lord's Divine love and light from His Divine wisdom. We must now explain here that the atmosphere which is the containing medium of heat and light is the third element that emanates from the sun there, and that this atmosphere emanates from the Divine element of the Lord which we call useful endeavor.