Divine Love and Wisdom (Harleys) n. 125

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125. Because the quarters are varying receptions of love and wisdom by the angels, the variety from which that appearance comes into being will be stated. The Lord is in the angel and the angel in the Lord, as was shown in a previous section. But because it appears as if the Lord as a Sun is outside the angel, it also appears that the Lord sees him from the Sun and that he sees the Lord in the Sun, and this is almost as an image appears in a mirror. Wherefore if we speak from that appearance then the case is this, that the Lord sees and looks upon each one face to face, but that the angels on the other hand, do not thus see the Lord. Those who are in love to the Lord from the Lord see Him directly, therefore such are in the east and west. But those who are more in wisdom see the Lord indirectly to the right, and those who are less in wisdom indirectly to the left. Therefore the former are in the south and the latter in the north. The reason these have an indirect view is because love and wisdom proceed from the Lord as one but, as said above, are not received as one by the angels. And the wisdom which prevails over the love indeed appears as wisdom but yet is not, because in the superabundance of wisdom there is no life from love in it. From the foregoing it is clear whence comes the diversity of reception according to which the angels' dwellings appear relative to quarters in the spiritual world.


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