Divine Love and Wisdom (Rogers) n. 395

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395. Since the soul in respect to its essential being is love and wisdom, and these two are in a person from the Lord, therefore two recipient vessels were created in the human being, which are also the Lord's abodes in a person, one being for love, and the other for wisdom. The one that exists for love is called the will, and the other that exists for wisdom is called the intellect. Now because love and wisdom in the Lord are, in a distinct combination, one (see nos. 17-22 above), Divine love being a property of His Divine wisdom, and Divine wisdom being a property of His Divine love (nos. 34-39), and because these emanate from the human God, that is, from the Lord, in such a combination, therefore the two recipient vessels and abodes in the human being called the will and intellect were so created by the Lord as to be distinctly two, and yet to function as one in every operation and in every sensation. For in these functions the will and intellect cannot be separated. [2] Nevertheless, to make it possible for a person to become a recipient vessel and abode, of necessity to that end it has come about that a person's intellect can be raised above his inherent love into some light of wisdom for which he has no love, and see and be taught by it how he should live in order to come also into that love and so enjoy bliss to eternity. Now, however, because people have abused their ability to raise the intellect above their inherent love, they have therefore destroyed in themselves that element which could have been a recipient vessel and abode of the Lord, that is to say, of love and wisdom from the Lord, by making the will the abode of a love of self and a love of the world, and the intellect the abode of justifications of those loves. This is the origin of the circumstance that these two abodes, the will and intellect, have become the abodes of hellish loves and, by arguments in favor of them, of hellish thinking, which people in hell regard as wisdom.


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