Divine Love and Wisdom (Rogers) n. 95

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95. That love produces heat, and wisdom light, is evident from simply the experience of it. When a person loves, he grows warm, and when he thinks wisely, he sees things as though in light. It is apparent from this that the first emanation of love is heat, and the first emanation of wisdom is light. It is apparent that they are also correspondent forms, for warmth does not exist in the love itself, but arises from it in the will and so in the body, and light does not exist in wisdom, but in the thought of the intellect and so in the speech. Consequently love and wisdom are the essence and life in heat and light. Heat and light are what emanate from them, and because they are emanations, they are also correspondent forms.


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