TCR 39, 41, 44 - Divine Love & Wisdom and people

TCR 39
Since God is Love Itself and Wisdom Itself,
He is Life Itself, or Life in Itself.

We read in John:

The Word was with God, and the Word was God;
in Him was Life, and the Life was the light of men.
(John 1:14)

'God' there means the Divine Love,
and 'the Word' means the Divine Wisdom;
and the Divine Wisdom is truly life,
and life is truly the light radiated by the sun of the spiritual world,
in the midst of which is Jehovah God.

TCR 41 [2]
. . . because a person needs to be reformed and regenerated,
which is impossible unless the light of life, which is intelligence,
shows what ought to be willed and loved.
It should, however, be known
that God is constantly working to conjoin love with wisdom in a person,
though he, unless he looks to God and believes in Him,
is constantly working to separate them.
Therefore in so far as these two,
the good of love or charity and the truth of wisdom or faith,
are conjoined in a person, so far does he become an image of God,
and is raised towards and into the heaven where angels live.

TCR 44
There are two things
which make up the essence of God - love and wisdom;
but there are three
which make up the essence of His love -
loving others than oneself,
wishing to be one with them,
and devoting oneself to their happiness.
The same three make up the essence of His wisdom,
because . . . love and wisdom are one in God.
It is love which wills these things,
wisdom that puts them into effect.

[2] The first essential, loving others than oneself,
is to be recognized in God's love towards the whole human race.
On this account God loves everything He has created . . ..
God's love goes out and extends not only to good people and things,
but also to evil people and things;
consequently, not only to people and things in heaven,
but also to people and things in hell . . ..
For God is everywhere and from eternity to eternity the same.
. . . But it is the fault of evil people and things that they are evil,
because they do not receive God's love as it is . . . but as they are.

[3] The second essential of God's love,
wishing to be one with others,
is to be recognized also in His conjoining Himself to the heaven of angels,
the church on earth, to everyone in it,
and to every good and truth
which compose and make up men and the church.
Love regarded in itself is nothing but a striving to be conjoined.
Therefore to realize this essential of love
God created man in His image and likeness,
so that he could be conjoined with this.

[4] The third essential of God's love,
to devote Himself to the happiness of others,
is to be recognized in everlasting life,
which is blessedness, bliss and happiness without end,
which He gives to those who receive His love into themselves.
For God, just as He is Love itself, is also blessedness itself.
For every love breathes out an aura of joy from itself,
and the Divine Love breathes out
the very height of blessedness, bliss and happiness for ever;
so God makes the angels and men after death happy from Himself,
which He does by being conjoined with them.