I - A Divina Providência é o governo do Divino Amor e da Divina Sabedoria do Senhor

1. Para que se entenda o que é a Divina Providência e que ela é o governo do Divino Amor e da Divina Sabedoria do Senhor, importa saber o que anteriormente foi dito e mostrado a este respeito no tratado Divino Amor e Divina Sabedoria , que é o seguinte: no Senhor, o Divino Amor pertence à Divina Sabedoria e a Divina Sabedoria ao Divino Amor (n° 34-39); o Divino Amor e a Divina Sabedoria não podem deixar de estar e existir nos outros criados por eles (n° 47-51); todas as coisas do universo foram criadas pelo Divino Amor e pela Divina Sabedoria (n° 52, 53, 151-156); todas as coisas do universo são receptáculos do Divino Amor e da Divina Sabedoria (n° 55-60); o Senhor aparece como Sol perante os anjos; o calor daí procedente é o amor e a luz daí procedente é a sabedoria (n° 83-88, 89-92, 93-98, 296-301); o Divino Amor e a Divina Sabedoria, que procedem do Senhor, fazem um (n° 99-102); o Senhor de eternidade, que é JEHOVAH, criou de Si, e não do nada, o universo e todas as suas coisas (n° 282-284, 290-295). Estes são os pontos vistos no tratado que se chama Sabedoria Angélica sobre o Divino Amor e a Divina Sabedoria.

55. Everything in the created universe is a vessel for the divine love and wisdom of the Divine-Human One. We acknowledge that everything in the universe, great and small, has been created by God. That is why the universe and absolutely everything in it is called "the work of Jehovah's hands" in the Word.

People do say that the whole world was created out of nothing, and they like to think of "nothing" as absolutely nothing. However, nothing comes from "absolutely nothing" and nothing can. This is an abiding truth. This means that the universe, being an image of God and therefore full of God, could be created by God only in God. God is reality itself, and everything that exists must come from that reality. To speak of creating something that exists from a "nothing" that does not exist is a plain contradiction of terms.

Still, what is created by God in God is not a continuation of him, since God is intrinsic reality and there is no trace of intrinsic reality in anything created. If there were any intrinsic reality in a created being, it would be a continuation of God, and any continuation of God is God.

The angelic concept involved is that anything created by God in God is like something within ourselves that we have put forth from our life, but the life is then withdrawn from it. It then agrees with our life, but still, it is not our life. In support of this, angels cite many things that happen in their heaven, where they say that they are in God and that God is in them, and yet that they have in their being no trace of God that is actually God. This may serve simply as information; more of the angels' evidence will be offered later [116].