them to careful inspection, and in some
elevation of spirit search for the universal of
all things, and you cannot conclude otherwise
than that it is Love and Wisdom. For these are
the two essentials of all things of mans life;
everything of that life, civil, moral, and spiritual,
hinges upon these two, and apart from
these
two is nothing. It is the same with all things
of the life of the composite Man, which is
a society, larger or smaller, a kingdom, am
empire, a church, and also the angelic heaven.
Take away love and wisdom from these, and
consider whether they be anything, and you
will
find that apart from love and wisdom as
their origin they are nothing. Love together
with wisdom in its very essence is in God.
This no one can deny;
for God loves everyone
from love in Himself, and leads everyone
from wisdom in Himself.
The created universe,
too, viewed in relation to its order, is so full
of wisdom coming forth
from love that all
things in the aggregate may be said to be
wisdom itself. For things limitless
are in such order,
successively and simultaneously, that taken
together they make a one. It is from this;
and this alone, that they can be held together
and continually preserved.
