Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom

Excerpt from book: and the spiritual light from which the angels derive love and wisdom as may be seen in the work on Heaven and Hell (n. 116-140). 6. Since then man is not life but is a recipient of life it follows that the conception of a man from his father is not a conception of life but only a conception of the first and purest form capable of receiving life; and to this as to a nucleus or starting- point in the womb are successively added substances and matters in forms adapted to the reception of life in their order and degree. THE DIVINE IS NOT IN SPACE. 7. That the Divine that is God is not in space although omnipresent and with every man in the world and with every angel in heaven and with every spirit under heaven cannot be comprehended by a merely natural idea but it can by a spiritual idea. It cannot be comprehended by a natural idea because in the natural ideathere is space; since it is formed out of such things as are in the world and in each and all of these as seen by the eye there is space. In the world everything great and small is of space; everything long broad and high is of space; in short every measure figure and form is of space. This is why it has been said that it cannot be comprehended by a merely natural idea that''the Divine is not in space when it is said that the Divine is everywhere. Still by natural thought a man may comprehend this if only he admit into it something of spiritual light. For this reason something shall first be said about spiritual idea and thought therefrom. Spiritual idea derives nothing from space but it derives its all from state. State is predicated of love of life of wisdom of affections of joys therefrom; in general of good and of truth. An idea of these things which is truly spiritual has nothing i...