DP 331 - Divine Providence is Divine Order

The Lord cannot go against

the Laws of Divine Providence,

because to do so would be

to go against His Divine love

and against His Divine wisdom.

DP 331

Of all the things emanating from Him,

Divine providence is the primary one,

for this is continually intent on the end

for which the universe was created.

The operation and progress

of the end through the means

is what we call Divine providence.

Now because the Divine emanation is the Lord,

and Divine providence is the primary thing that emanates,

it follows that

to go against the laws of His Divine providence

would be to go against Himself.

One can also say that the Lord is providence,

as we say that God is order.

For Divine providence is the Divine order

primarily concerned with the salvation of humankind,

and as order is impossible without laws,

since laws constitute it,

and since every law takes is origin from order,

so that it also is order,

therefore it follows that as God is order,

so He is the law of His order.

The same may be said of Divine providence,

that as the Lord is His providence,

He is also the law of His providence.