AE 1128 [2,3]
Love and wisdom in the Lord are not two but one,
and this one is the Divine love,
which appears before the angels of heaven as a sun.
But when love and wisdom proceed from the Lord as a sun
they appear as two distinct things,
love appearing as heat,
and wisdom as light.
. . . It is similar with omnipresence and omniscience.
In the Lord these are one;
and yet they proceed from Him as two distinct attributes;
for omnipresence has relation to love,
and omniscience to wisdom;
or what is the same,
omnipresence has relation to good,
and omniscience to truth,
since all good is of love
and all truth is of wisdom.
The Lord's omnipresence has relation to love and to good
because the Lord is present with a person in the good of his love;
and omniscience has relation to wisdom and to truth
because from a person's good of love
the Lord is omnipresent in the truths of his understanding,
and this omnipresence is called omniscience.
As this is true individually of one person so it is true in general of all.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
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