Divine Love and Wisdom (Harleys) n. 362

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362. THE WILL AND THE UNDERSTANDING, WHICH ARE THE RECEPTACLES OF LOVE AND WISDOM, ARE IN THE BRAINS, IN THE WHOLE AND EVERY PART OF THEM, AND HENCE IN THE BODY, IN THE WHOLE AND EVERY PART OF IT

These things must be shown as follows:

(i) Love and wisdom, and the will and the understanding therefrom, make the very life of man. (ii) The life of man in its beginnings is in the brains and in its derivatives in the body. (iii) Such as life is in its beginnings, such it is in the whole and every part. (iv) By means of those beginnings, life is in the whole from every part, and in every part from the whole. (v) Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, and therefore such is the man.


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