Basic Spiritual Principles:
Love is the substance of all spiritual things, and wisdom their form.
The Divine God is the Source of all Love and Wisdom:
- The Spiritual and Natural worlds are active only from that Source in God.
- Love and Wisdom of the Source are what makes God Conscious, and Human.
- We have to conform ourselves to receive these, so that they can act again in us.
- All permanent effects are from the joint action of love and wisdom.
- The spiritual grows when it has a permanent foundation, namely acts ‘on earth’.
Swedenborg: Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763.
(v. brief summary! More in Part C)