DLW 23
All powers of
human reason
join together and center, so to speak,
on the existence of
one God,
the creator of the universe.
Consequently any person possessed
of reason,
owing to the common sense of his intellect,
does not and
cannot think otherwise.
Tell anyone possessed of sound reason
that there
are two creators of the universe,
and you will encounter an antipathy
to you because of it,
even perhaps from just the sound of the words in
his ear.
It is apparent from this
that all powers of human reason join
together
and center on the existence of one God.
For this there
are two reasons.
The first is that the very ability to think rationally
regarded in itself
is not a person's own,
but is God's gift in him.
On
it depends human reason in general,
and that dependence in general
causes it to see,
as though of itself,
the existence of one God.
The
second reason is that through that faculty
a person either is in the
light of heaven
or draws the general tendency of his thought from it,
and the universal precept of the light of heaven
is the existence of one
God.
DLW end of 25-26
If each and every angel
did not look to the same one God,
they would
fall away from one another
and heaven would disintegrate.
Consequently,
if an angel in heaven
merely thinks of more than one God,
he immediately
vanishes;
for he is banished
to the outmost perimeter of the heavens
and falls downward.
Since the whole of heaven
and all the constituents of heaven
are
connected to the one God,
therefore the nature of angelic speech is such
that through a harmony
flowing from the harmony of heaven
it ends in
unison -
evidence that it is impossible
for angels to think of any but
one God,
for speech is an expression of thought.
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