![]() The expressions "every point" and "least part" are used, but spatial points and spatial parts are not meant, for there is nothing of space in what is Divine, this being spiritual, not natural. That which proceeds forth from the Sun is also the Sun in the least parts of it, and consequently is the Sun universally in every point. These two things, which in the Lord are a One, do indeed proceed forth as two distinct things from Himself as a Sun, the Wisdom as light and the Love as heat yet it is only to outward appearance that they proceed forth as two distinct things: in themselves they are not distinct, the light being of the heat, and the heat being of the light for just as they are one in the Sun, so they are one in the least point. The reciprocal union of the Divine Wisdom and the Divine Love is meant by these words of the Lord:īelievest thou not, Philip, that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me ( John 14:10-11). This One is the Divine Love that in the heavens becomes visible to angels as a Sun. nevertheless, these in Him are not two, but one for the Wisdom is of the Love, and the Love is of the Wisdom, and by reason of this union, which is reciprocal, there results a One. In the Lord there is Love and there is Wisdom: Love in Him is Being (Esse), and Wisdom in Him is Existing (Existere) 1 ![]() ![]() THE DIVINE WISDOM, IN THE HEAVENS BEFORE THE SIGHT OF ANGELS, IS SEEN AS LIGHT
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