THE DIVINE LOVE AND WISDOM IN GOD 1. Love and Wisdom are the two essentials and universals of Life; Love is the Being (Esse) of Life, and Wisdom the Existing (Existere) of Life from that Being. 2. God is Love and Wisdom itself, because He is very Being (Esse) and Existing (Existere) itself. 3. Unless God were Love and Wisdom itself, there would not be anything of love or anything of wisdom with angels in heaven or with men in the world. 4. To the extent that, by means of wisdom and love, angels and men are united to God, they are in true love and in true wisdom. 5. Two things go forth from Jehovah God, by means of the Sun in the midst of which He is, heat and light; the heat going forth from it is love, and the light wisdom. 6. The light going forth out of it is the splendour of love, meant in the Word by "glory." 7. That light is life itself. 8. Angels and men are alive to the extent that from God they are in wisdom derived from love. 9. It is the same whether you say God is Good itself and Truth itself or He is Love itself and Wisdom itself; because all good is of love and all truth is of wisdom. 10. Love and wisdom are inseparable and indivisible; similarly, good and truth; on which account, such as the love is with angels and men, such is the wisdom with them, or what is the same, such as the good, such the truth; not, however, the converse.