TCR 49 - A Summary of the Omnipotence, Omniscience, and Omnipresence of God; TCR 55 - Laws

TCR 49

(1) Omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence
are attributes of the Divine Wisdom from the Divine Love.

(2) The omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence
of God cannot be understood
unless it is known what order is;
and unless it is known that God is order,
and that at creation
He introduced order into the universe and into all its parts.

(3) The Omnipotence of God,
in the universe and in all its parts,
proceeds and operates according to the laws of His order.

(4) God is Omniscient, that is,
He perceives, sees, and knows all things,
even to the most minute,
that are done according to order,
and also from these, whatever is done contrary to order.

(5) God is Omnipresent in all things
from first to last of His order.

(6) Man was created a form of Divine order.

(7) A man has power against evil and falsity
from the Divine omnipotence,
wisdom concerning good and truth
from the Divine omniscience,
and is in God from the Divine omnipresence,
so far as he lives according to the Divine order.

TCR 55

Every one knows that there is not
an empire, kingdom, dukedom, republic, state or house
which is not established by laws,
constituting the order and thus the form of its government.
In every one of these
the laws of justice hold the first place,
political laws the second,
and economic laws the third.
If these legal systems are compared with a man,
the laws of justice form the head,
the political laws the body,
and the economic laws the dress;
and therefore these economic laws
can be changed like garments.
The main concern of the order
in which the Church has been established by God
is that God, and also the neighbor
towards whom order is to be practiced,
should be in everything pertaining to it.
The laws of this order 
are the truths contained in the Word.
The laws relating to God form the head of the Church,
those relating to the neighbor form the body,
and the ceremonial laws form the dress;
for if the former were not arrayed in an orderly ritual,
it would be as if the body were stripped naked
and exposed to the heat of summer
and the cold of winter;
or as if the walls and roof were removed from a temple,
to expose in full daylight
the shrine, the altar, and the pulpit
to all manner of sacrilege.