TCR 43 - the essence of God; TCR 48 - an image & likeness

TCR 43
The essence of God consists of two things,
love and wisdom;
while the essence of His love consists of three things,
namely, to love others outside of Himself,
to desire to be one with them,
and from Himself to render them blessed.
And because love and wisdom in God make one,
. . . the same three things
constitute the essence of His wisdom;
and love desires these three things,
and wisdom brings them forth. 


TCR 48 [7]
A person is a receptacle of God,
and a receptacle of God is an image of God;
and as God is love itself and wisdom itself,
a person is a receptacle of these;
and the receptacle becomes an image of God
in the measure in which it receives.
And a person is a likeness of God
from his feeling that the things that are from God
are in him as his own;
and yet from that likeness
he is only so far an image of God
as he acknowledges that love and wisdom,
or good and truth,
are not his own in him,
and are not from him,
but are solely in God,
and consequently from God.