Divine Love and Wisdom (Rogers) n. 298

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298. In subsequent discussions we will demonstrate fully that, regarded in respect to his outer and inner constituents, the human being is a form embracing all useful endeavors, and that all other useful endeavors throughout the created universe correspond to those useful endeavors. We need only mention it here in order to make it known that God as a person is the supreme form embracing all useful endeavors, from which all other useful endeavors in the created universe take their origin, and consequently that regarded in terms of its useful endeavors, the created universe is an image of Him. We call useful endeavors those phenomena which, being from the human God, or the Lord, are from creation in order. However, we do not call useful endeavors those which spring from people's native character, for their native character is hell, and its endeavors are contrary to order.


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