DLW 45
Anyone who can
with some thought
conceive of and comprehend
being and expression in itself
must altogether conceive of and
comprehend
that it is the one and only absolute.
The term
absolute is used of that which alone is,
and the term one and
only
of that which is the origin of everything else.
. . . because that absolute substance and form
is Divine love and
wisdom,
it follows that it is the one and only absolute love,
and the one and only absolute wisdom;
consequently, that it is
the one and only absolute essence,
and the one and only absolute
life.
For love and wisdom together are life.
DLW 46
That love and wisdom are the origin
of all things of nature
cannot be seen unless nature is regarded
in terms of the uses
it serves
in their series and succession,
and not in terms of
some of its forms,
which are objects only of the eye.
For
useful endeavors spring only from life,
and their series and
succession
from wisdom and love,
while forms are the vessels
serving those uses.
Consequently if one regards only the
forms,
it is impossible to see anything of life in nature,
still less anything of love and wisdom,
and so neither
anything of God.
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