Divine Love and Wisdom (Harleys) n. 155

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155. Creation itself cannot be brought within the comprehension unless space and time are removed from thought, but if these are removed, it can be comprehended. Remove them, if you can, or as much as you can, and keep your mind in an idea abstracted from space and time, and you will perceive there is no difference between the maximum and the minimum of space. Then, too, you cannot but have a similar idea of the creation of the universe as of the creation of the particulars in the universe. You will also have the idea that the diversity in created things springs from this, that there are infinite things in God-Man, and hence innumerable things in the Sun which is the first proceeding from Him, and these innumerable things exist as in an image [of the Infinite things in God-Man] in the created universe. Hence it is that no one thing can be identical with another. From this comes the variety of all things which is presented to sight in the natural world together with space, and in the spiritual world in an appearance of space. And it is a variety of general and individual things. These are the things which have been pointed out in Part I, namely that in God-Man infinite things are one distinctly (n. 17-22); that all things in the universe were created by the Divine Love and Wisdom (n. 52, 53); that all things in the created universe are recipients of the Divine Love and Wisdom of God-Man (n. 54-60) that the Divine is not in space (n. 7-10); that the Divine apart from space fills all spaces (n. 69-72); that the Divine is the same in things greatest and least (n. 77-82).


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