CONCERNING THE DIVINE WISDOM.
That the divine wisdom in the heavens appears before the eyes of
the angels as light
That the Lord hath created with man, and afterwards forms with
him, a receptacle of love, which is his will, and adjoins to it a
receptacle of wisdom, which is his understanding
Concerning the formation of man in the womb from the Lord by
influx into these two receptacles
That there is a similitude and analogy between the formation of
man in the womb, and his reformation and regeneration
That with man after birth the will becomes the receptacle of love,
and the understanding the receptacle of wisdom
That there is a correspondence of the heart with the will, and of
the lungs with the understanding
That the conjunction of the body and spirit with man is effected
by the motions of his heart and lungs, and that the separation
is effected when those motions cease
That no angel or spirit is given, nor can be given, who had not
been born a man in the world
That the divine love is divine good, and that the divine wisdom
is divine truth
That the conjunction is reciprocal of love and of wisdom
That love to the Lord from the Lord exists in charity, and that
wisdom (exists) in faith
That the Lord by His divine love and His divine wisdom animates
all things in heaven, and all things in the world, even to their
ultimates, causing some to live, and some to be and exist
The angelic idea concerning the creatiou of the universe from the