Divine Love and Wisdom (Harleys) n. 9

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9. The reason, however, that many do not comprehend this is that they love the natural and therefore do not wish to raise the thoughts of their understanding above the natural into spiritual light. And they who will not do so are unable to think except from space, even concerning God; and to think about God from space is to think about an extension of nature. This has to be premised, for without a knowledge and some perception that the Divine is not in space, nothing can be understood about the Divine Life which is Love and Wisdom, the subjects here treated of, and hence little if anything about Divine Providence, Omnipresence, Omniscience, Omnipotence, Infinity and Eternity, which will be treated of in order.


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