Angelic Wisdom concerning Divine Love and Wisdom by Emanuel Swedenborg tr from the Original Latin by John C Ager (2009).pdf

Angelic Wisdom concerning

Divine Love

and

Wisdom

EMANUEL SWEDENBORG

Translated from the Original Latin by

John C. Ager

S TANDARD E DITION

SWEDENBORG FOUNDATION

West Chester, Pennsylvania

This version was compiled from electronic files of the

Standard Edition of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg as

further edited by William Ross Woofenden. Pagination of

this PDF document does not match that of the

corresponding printed volumes, and any page references

within this text may not be accurate. However, most if not

all of the numerical references herein are not to page

numbers but to Swedenborg’s section numbers, which are

not affected by changes in pagination. If this work appears

both separately and as part of a larger volume file, its

pagination follows that of the larger volume in both cases.

This version has not been proofed against the original, and

occasional errors in conversion may remain. To purchase the

full set of the Redesigned Standard Edition of Emanuel

Swedenborg’s works, or the available volumes of the latest

translation (the New Century Edition of the Works of

Emanuel Swedenborg), contact the Swedenborg Foundation

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Contents

Editor’s Preface

1. [The Creator]

Love is the life of man

God alone, consequently the Lord, is Love itself, because he is life

itself, and angels and men are recipients of life

The Divine is not in space

God is very man

In God-Man esse and existere are one distinguishably

In God-Man infinite things are one distinguishably

There is one God-Man, from whom all things come

The Divine essence itself is love and wisdom

Divine love is of Divine wisdom, and Divine wisdom is of Divine

love

Divine love and Divine wisdom are substance and are form

Divine love and Divine wisdom are substance and form in itself,

thus the very and the only

Divine love and Divine wisdom must necessarily have being and

have form in others created by itself

All things in the universe are creationed from the Divine love and

the Divine wisdom of God-man

All things in the created universe are recipients of the Divine love

and the Divine wisdom of God-Man

All created things have relation in a kind of image to man

The uses of all created things ascend by degrees from last things to

man, and through man to God the creator, from whom they

are

The Divine, apart from space, fills all spaces of the universe

The Divine is in all time, apart from time

The Divine in things greatest and least is the same

2. [The Means of Creation]

Divine love and Divine wisdom appear in the spiritual world as a

sun

Out of the sun that takes form from the Divine love and the Divine

wisdom, heat and light go forth

The sun of the spiritual world is not God, but is a proceeding from

the Divine love and Divine wisdom of God-Man; so also are

the heat and light from that sun (n. 93).

Spiritual heat and light, in proceeding from the Lord as a sun,

make one, just as his Divine love and Divine wisdom make one

The sun of the spiritual world appears at a middle altitude, far off

from the angels, like the sun of the natural world from men

The distance between the sun and the angels in the spiritual world

is an appearance according to reception by them of Divine love

and Divine wisdom

Angels are in the Lord, and the Lord in them; and because angels

are recipients, the Lord alone is heaven

In the spiritual world the east is where the Lord appears as a sun,

and from that the other quarters are determined

The quarters in the spiritual world are not from the Lord as a sun,

but from the angels according to reception

Angels turn their faces constantly to the Lord as a sun, and thus

have the south to the right, the north to the left, and the west

behind them

All interior things of the angels, both of mind and body, are turned

to the Lord as a sun

Every spirit, whatever his quality, turns in like manner to his ruling

love

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

The Lord created the universe and all things of it by means of the

sun which is the first proceeding of Divine love and Divine

wisdom

The sun of the natural world is pure fire, consequently dead; nature

also is dead, because it derives its origin from that sun

Without a double sun, one living and the other dead, no creation is

possible

The end of creation has form in outmosts, which end is that all

things may return to the creator and that there may be

conjunction

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