DLW 363
(1) Love and wisdom,
and consequently the will and intellect,
constitute a person's very life.
Scarcely anyone knows what life is.
When anyone thinks about it,
it seems as though it were something vaporous,
of which no idea is possible.
It seems so because people do not know
that God alone is life,
and that His life is Divine love and wisdom.
Consequently it is apparent
that nothing else is the life in a person,
and that it is the life in him
in the degree that he receives it.
DLW 368
(5) The character of the
love determines
the character of the wisdom,
and so the character
of the person.
The reason is
that the character of the love and
wisdom
determines the character of the will and intellect.
For the
will is the recipient vessel of love,
and the intellect the
recipient vessel of wisdom . . .
and these two form
the person and his character.
Love is multifarious -
so multifarious that its varieties are
limitless -
as can be seen
from the human race on earth and in the
heavens.
One finds not one person or one angel
so like another
that there is no distinction between them.
It is love that
distinguishes them,
for everyone is the embodiment of his love.
People suppose that it is wisdom
that distinguishes them,
but
wisdom is the product of love,
wisdom being its form.
For love is
the essence of life,
and wisdom the expression of life
springing
from that essence.
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