DLW 297, 298, 301 - Love, Wisdom, Useful Endeavor

DLW 297

Everyone who thinks with some enlightenment
can see that love has as its end and intends
some useful endeavor,
and that it produces the useful endeavor
through wisdom;
for love cannot produce any useful endeavor of itself,
but only by means of wisdom.
Indeed, what is love
unless there is something that is loved?
This something is useful endeavor.
And because useful endeavor
is that which is loved,
and it is produced through wisdom,
it follows that useful endeavor
is the containing medium of love and wisdom.

. . . It can be seen from this
that the aforementioned three elements -
the Divine element of love,
the Divine element of wisdom,
and the Divine element of useful endeavor -
are in the Lord,
and that in essence they are the Lord.

DLW 298

. . . God as a person is the supreme form
embracing all useful endeavors,
from which
all other useful endeavors in the created universe
take their origin,
and consequently
that regarded in terms of its useful endeavors,
the created universe is an image of Him.

We call useful endeavors those phenomena which,
being from the human God, or the Lord,
are from creation in order.
However, we do not call useful endeavors
those which spring from people's native character,
for their native character is hell,
and its endeavors are contrary to order.

DLW 301

It is furthermore clearly apparent from angelic ideas,
which are independent of space,
that nothing in the created universe has life
except the human God alone, or the Lord,
that nothing moves
except as the result of life from Him,
and that nothing has existence
except through the sun from Him -
consequently that it is a truth
that in God we live, move, and have our being. ^1
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'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.'
As some of your own poets have said,
'For we are also His offspring.'

(Acts of the Apostles 17:28)