297. Everyone who thinks with any enlightenment can see that love has use for an end, and intends it, and brings it forth by means of wisdom. For love of itself can bring forth no use, but can do so by means of wisdom as a medium. Indeed, what is love unless there is something loved? This something is use, and because use is that which is loved, and is brought forth by means of wisdom, it follows that use is the containant of wisdom and love. It has been shown (n. 209-216, and elsewhere) that these three, love, wisdom and use follow in order according to degrees of altitude, and that the ultimate degree is the complex, containant and base of the prior degrees. From these facts it can be established that these three, the Divine of Love, the Divine of Wisdom, and the Divine of Use are in the Lord, and in essence are the Lord.