It is the same with smell; it is well known that odor affects the nostrils, and that it is in the nostrils, and that the nostrils are affected by the odoriferous particles touching them. The Divine Love and Wisdom. 14-3 It should be noticed that in Latin, distinctly is the adverb of the verb distinguish. Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom. And having these, He also has eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and tongue; also the parts within man, as the heart and lungs, and their dependencies, all of which, taken together, make man to be a man. by Emanuel Swedenborg. universe and all things thereof (n. 290-295), There are in the Lord three things that are the Lord, the From this it may be seen that man is unable, by a merely natural idea, to comprehend that the Divine is everywhere, and yet not in space; but that angels and spirits comprehend this clearly; consequently that a man also may, provided he admits into his thought something of spiritual light; and this for the reason that it is not his body that thinks, but his spirit, thus not his natural, but his spiritual. The spiritual idea of distances of space is the same as of distances of good or distances of truth, which are affinities and likenesses according to states of goodness and truth. [Emanuel Swedenborg; George F Dole] -- While many of Emanuel Swedenborgs writings rely heavily on the Bible, Divine Love and Wisdom appeals directly to human experience. They are one distinctly, like Love and Wisdom; in fact, love is Esse, and wisdom is Existere; for there can be no love except in wisdom, nor can there be any wisdom except from love; consequently when love is in wisdom, then it EXISTS. The common people in Christendom have an idea that God is a Man, because God in the Athanasian doctrine of the Trinity is called a "Person." DIVINE LOVE AND DIVINE WISDOM ARE SUBSTANCE AND FORM IN ITSELF, THUS THE VERY AND THE ONLY. Swedenborg refers to them in Latin terms, as the Esse and Existere, … That a soul can exist apart from a body, and can think and be wise, is an error springing from fallacies; for every man's soul is in a spiritual body after it has cast off the material coverings which it carried about in the world. That in man there is a possibility of loving [and of being wise], even when he is not wise as he might be and does not love as he might, has been made known to me from much experience, and will be abundantly shown elsewhere. understand, have been created and formed by the Lord in man; the will In man there are many and numberless things, as said above; but still man feels them all as one. State is predicated of love, of life, of wisdom, of affections, of joys therefrom; in general, of good and of truth. Author: Emanuel Swedenborg. Because in God-Man there are infinite things which appear in heaven, in angel, and in man, as in a mirror; and because God-Man is not in space (as was shown above, n. 7-10), it can, to some extent, be seen and comprehended how God can be Omnipresent, Omniscient, and All-providing; and how, as Man, He could create all things, and as Man can hold the things created by Himself in their order to eternity. Conjunction of love is by reciprocation; and there can be no reciprocation in self alone. §§ 7-10 4. Divine Love wills to save all, but it cam save only by means of Divine Wisdom; to Divine Wisdom belong all the laws through which salvation is effected; and these laws Love cannot transcend, because Divine Love and Divine Wisdom are one and act in unison. Man knows that there is such a thing as love, but he does not know what love is. It demonstrates how God’s love, wisdom, and humanity are reflected in creation and in ourselves, and suggests that the act of Creation is not a mystery of the past, but a miracle ongoing in every instant of the present. The wisdom is not preached to you in a very serious manner, but in an all playful manner. Published by The American Swedenborg Printing and Publishing Society, organized for the business and objects solely of printing, publishing and circulating the Theological Works and Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg for charitable and missionary purposes. THE DIVINE IS NOT IN SPACE. 358-361), Will and understanding, which are the receptacles of love and When a man sees objects at a distance, the seeing appears to be there; yet the seeing is in the eye, which is the subject, and is likewise an affecting of the subject. Sufism, mystical Islamic belief and practice in which Muslims seek to find the truth of divine love and knowledge through direct personal experience of God. It demonstrates how God's love, wisdom, and humanity are reflected in creation and in ourselves, and suggests that the act of creation is not a mystery of the past, but a miracle ongoing in every instant of the present. Divine Love and Wisdom has been called the most profound work of the Enlightenment scientist and seer Emanuel Swedenborg. The Divine Love and Wisdom. It is known from Genesis (1:26, 27), that men were created after the image and likeness of God. It demonstrates how God’s love, wisdom, and humanity are reflected in creation and in ourselves, and suggests that the act of Creation is not a mystery of the past, but a miracle ongoing in every instant of the present. From Wikisource ... For man in respect to his mind is a spirit, and if he be in love and wisdom, is an angel; consequently, after death, when he has put off his externals, which he had derived from the natural world, he becomes a spirit or an angel. Since there is such a union of love and wisdom and of wisdom and love in God-Man, there is one Divine Essence. Divine Love and Divine Wisdom proceeding from the Lord as a sun and producing heat and light in Heaven, are the proceeding divine, which is the Holy Spirit (n. 146). It cannot be said to be Esse and Existere from itself, because this involves a beginning, and a beginning from something within in which would be Esse and Existere in itself. Emanuel Swedenborg. 3 WEST TWENTY-NINTH STREET 51-86.) For Esse is by means of Existere, and not apart from it. 14-1 To be and to exist. It demonstrates how God’s love, wisdom, and humanity are reflected in creation and in ourselves, and suggests that the act of Creation is not a mystery of the past, but a miracle ongoing in every instant of the present. PART FIRST. Who that has sound reason can help seeing that the Divine is not divisible? Now since man was created to be a recipient, and is a recipient in the degree in which he loves God and from love to God is wise, in other words, in the degree in which he is affected by those things which are from God and thinks from that affection, it follows that the Divine Essence, which is the Creator, is Divine Love and Divine Wisdom. From Wikisource ... For man in respect to his mind is a spirit, and if he be in love and wisdom, is an angel; consequently, after death, when he has put off his externals, which he had derived from the natural world, he becomes a spirit or an angel. And because the Lord is uncreate and infinite, He is Being [Esse] itself, which is called "Jehovah," and Life itself, or Life in itself. It is the same with sight. And since one is possible with the other, and not apart from the other, it follows that they are one, but one distinctly. Either, it is true, conjoins; and to love one's own, that is, oneself, in another does not seem to divide; but it does so effectually divide that so far as any one has loved another in this manner, so far he afterwards hates him. 319-326), All things created by the Lord are use; they are uses in the "distincte unum," see below in this paragraph, also n. 17, 22, 34, 223, and DP 4. From all this it may now first be seen that Divine Love and Divine Wisdom in themselves are substance and form; for they are very Esse and Existere; and unless they were such Esse and Existere as they are substance and form, they would be a mere thing of reasoning, which in itself is nothing. Divine Love, Wisdom and Power within the City of Holontoneea . 362-370), There is a correspondence of the will with the heart, and of Both we on earth and angels are life-receivers. with the understanding, everything may be known that can be known Scarcely any one believes that they are really and actually substance and form. Its highest frequencies manifest as Wisdom—Divine Love is Divine Wisdom—perfect understanding. After the "wedding," the first union is with a desire for knowing, which gives rise to a desire for what is true. It is otherwise when man by that capacity has perverted the lower parts of his understanding; such a man indeed is endowed with that capacity, but by the twist given to these lower parts, he turns it contrariwise, and thereby his reason becomes unsound. We all like the idea of saving a bit of cash, so when we found out how many good quality used books are out there - we just had to let you know! §§ 11-13 5. Divine Love and Divine Wisdom are a one because the union is reciprocal, and reciprocal union causes oneness. Divine Love and Wisdom, by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1763], tr. wisdom, are in the brains, in the whole and in every part of them, and You can also read the full text online using our ereader. From the created universe a like conclusion may be drawn when it is regarded from uses and their correspondences. It is the same with all things of the life of the composite Man, which is, as was said above, a society, larger or smaller, a kingdom, an empire, a church, and also the angelic heaven. It is because the Divine Essence itself is Love and Wisdom, that all things in the universe have relation to good and truth; for everything that proceeds from love is called good, and everything that proceeds from wisdom is called truth. They are said to be one distinctly, because love and wisdom are two distinct things, yet so united that love is of wisdom, and wisdom is of love, for in wisdom love is, and in love wisdom Exists; and since wisdom derives its Existere from love (as was said above, n. 15), therefore Divine Wisdom also is Esse. That the Divine, that is, God, is not in space, although omnipresent and with every man in the world, and with every angel in heaven, and with every spirit under heaven, cannot be comprehended by a merely natural idea, but it can by a spiritual idea. 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