Divine Love and Wisdom (Harleys) n. 33

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33. From the Divine Love and Wisdom, which make the very Essence which is God, arise all the affections and thoughts with man, affections from Divine Love, and thoughts from Divine Wisdom. And each and all things of man are nothing but affection and thought. These two are like the founts of all the things of his life. All the enjoyments and pleasures of his life are from them, enjoyments from the affection of his love and pleasures from the thought therefrom. Now since man was created to be a recipient, and is a recipient in the degree in which he loves God, and out of love to God is wise, that is, in the degree in which he is affected by those things that are from God, and in the degree that he thinks from that affection, it follows that the Divine Essence, which is the Creator, is Divine Love and Wisdom.


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