17. "The Divine love proximately proceeding from Him, and encompassing Him, appears as a sun; wherefore by the light and heat thence proceeding, He has omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotence, from end to end of both worlds. But the sun from which nature came into existence is pure fire; in the light and heat of which there is nothing of wisdom and love, wherefore nothing of life, but still it serves life, that is, wisdom and love, for a swathing and garment, in order that the forms of those lives may endure, and that they may have as it were times and spaces; but yet they do not have times and spaces; but love and wisdom only affect those who are in times and spaces, which takes place according to reception, and reception is according to the affection of being wise, and according to a life conformable to wisdom." When the novitiates heard these things, they exulted with joy, and said, "We perceive that our hearts exult with joy as never before." "You have this," replied the angels, "from the celestial and spiritual love and its delight which proceed from our sun."