AE 1124 - A Sunbeam

AE 1124 [2]

The Divine love,
which in the Divine wisdom is the life itself which is God,
is not in its essence thinkable,
for it is infinite and thus transcends comprehension,
but in its appearance it is thinkable.

Before the eyes of angels the Lord appears as a sun,
and from that sun proceed heat and light.
The sun is the Divine love,
the heat is the Divine love proceeding,
which is called the Divine good,
and the light is the Divine wisdom proceeding,
which is called the Divine truth.
And yet the life that is God
must not be thought of as a fire or heat or light,
unless there goes with it
the thought at the same time
of love and of wisdom,
that is, that the Divine love is like fire,
and the Divine wisdom is like light,
and the Divine love and the Divine wisdom together
are like a sunbeam.

For God is a perfect Man,
in face like Man and in body like Man,
with no difference as to form
but only as to essence;
His essence is that He is love itself and wisdom itself,
thus life itself.