28. The Divine essence itself is love and wisdom. If you muster everything you know and submit it to your mind's inspection, and in a somewhat elevated state of the spirit examine what the universal element is in all things, you cannot help but conclude that it is love and wisdom. For these two are the essential ingredients in all components of a person's life. All his civil life, all his moral life, and all his spiritual life hang on these two. Without these two they are nonexistent. The same is true of all the components in the life of the collective person, meaning, as before said, a society greater or smaller, a kingdom or empire, the church, and also the angelic heaven. Take from these love and wisdom and consider whether they have any reality, and you will find that without love and wisdom as their origin they do not exist.