154. The universe and everything therein[was] created by the Lord by means of the Sun of the spiritual world because that Sun is the first proceeding of the Divine Love and Wisdom. And from the Divine Love and Wisdom all things are, as was shown above, n. 52-82. In every created thing, as in the greatest so in the least, there are three things-end, cause and effect. A created thing in which there are not these three is not possible. In what is the greatest, that is, in the universe, these three exist in the following order. In the Sun which is the first proceeding of the Divine Love and Wisdom, is the end of all things. In the spiritual world are the causes of all things. And in the natural world are the effects of all things. But how these three are in first and last things will be told in what follows. Now because no created thing is possible in which there are not these three, it follows that the universe and all things therein were created by the Lord through the Sun where is the end of all things.