55. 3. In everything it does, divine providence focuses on what is infinite and eternal from itself, especially in the intent to save the human race. What is intrinsically infinite and eternal is Divinity itself or the essential Lord. What is secondarily infinite and eternal, though, is divinity emanating, or the Lord in others created from himself--in us and in angels, that is. This divinity is the same as divine providence because the Lord provides by means of that derivative divinity that everything be kept in the design in which and into which it was created. Since it is emanating divinity that is accomplishing this, it follows that all of it is divine providence.

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.