DW 1 - "I Am the Light of the World"

Divine Wisdom (DW) 1

IN THE HEAVENS
THE DIVINE WISDOM APPEARS
BEFORE THE EYES OF THE ANGELS AS LIGHT.

In the Lord there is love and there is wisdom.
Love in Him is being (esse),
and wisdom in Him is existence (existere);
nevertheless, these are not two in Him but one;
for wisdom is of love and love is of wisdom;
and from this union,
which is reciprocal,
they become one,
and that one is the Divine love,
which appears in the heavens before the angels as a Sun.
The reciprocal union
of the Divine wisdom and the Divine love 
is meant by these words of the Lord:
 
Philip, do you not believe
that I am in the Father and the Father in Me?
Believe Me, that I am in the Father
and the Father in Me.
(John 14:10, 11)

and by these words:

I and the Father are one.
(John 10:30)

These two, which are one in the Lord,
do, indeed, proceed from Him as a Sun
as two distinct things,
wisdom as light and love as heat;
but they proceed as distinct in appearance,
for in themselves they are not distinct,
for the light is of the heat and the heat is of the light,
and in every least point they are a one,
as is true of our sun;
for whatever proceeds from the sun
is the sun in the least parts,
and thus universally in all.
It is said, every point and least part,
but this does not mean a point or least part of space,
for that does not pertain to the Divine,
for the Divine is spiritual and not natural.

Since wisdom and love proceed from the Lord as a sun
in appearance as two distinct things,
wisdom under the form of light,
and love under the perception of heat,
therefore they are received by the angels as two distinct things,
some receiving more of the heat which is love,
and some more of the light which is wisdom . . ..

The Divine wisdom that appears in the heavens as light
is not light in its essence,
but it clothes itself with light
that it may appear before the sight of the angels.
In its essence wisdom is the Divine truth,
and the light is its appearance and correspondence.
It is the same with the light of wisdom as with the heat of love,
that has been spoken of above.
As light corresponds to wisdom,
and the Lord is the Divine wisdom,
so in the Word, in many passages,
the Lord is called "the light," as in the following:

He was the true light,
that lights every man coming into the world.
(John 1:9)

Jesus said, I am the light of the world,
he that follows Me shall not walk in darkness,
but shall have the light of life.
(John 8:12)

Jesus said, Yet a little while is the Light with you;
walk while you have the Light,
lest the darkness seize you.
While you have the Light
believe on the Light,
that you may be the sons of the Light.
I have come a Light into the world,
that whosoever believes on Me
may not abide in darkness.
(John 12:35, 36, 46)

(And in many other passages.)

His Divine wisdom was also represented
by His garments when He was transfigured, that:
 
They appeared as light, glistening and white as snow,
so as no fuller on earth can whiten them.
(Mark 9:3; Matthew 17:2)

"Garments" signify in the Word the truths of wisdom;
and in consequence all angels in the heavens
appear clothed in accordance
with the truths of their knowledge, intelligence and wisdom.