69. There should be no other thought of God, that is, of the Lord, than that He is Life Itself, and of created beings, as angels and men, than that they are forms recipient of life. The Lord's Life is the Divine Love, and this alone has Life and is Life. From this it is clear that no one has life except from Him. Men believe that life is in themselves because, in the recipient form, life is felt as one's own, just as the principal in the instrumental which act together as one cause. Because Divine Love is such that it wishes what is its own to be another's it is granted that life may be perceived as if it were man's, and man may seem to receive life as if from himself. Reception is possible in no other way, because there is no reciprocity. This, however, is treated of elsewhere.