30. It is from the fact that the very Divine Essence is Love and Wisdom that man has two faculties of life, from one of which he has understanding, and from the other, will. The faculty from which he has understanding derives everything it has from the influx of Wisdom from God; and the faculty from which he has will derives everything it has from the influx of Love from God. A man's not being justly wise and not loving justly does not take away these faculties but merely closes them in, and so long as they are closed in, the understanding is indeed called understanding and the will is called will, but they are not such essentially. Wherefore if these two faculties were to be taken away, all that is human would perish; for being human is to think and speak from thought, and to will and act from will. Hence it is clear that the Divine dwells with man in these two faculties, which are the faculties of being wise and of loving, that is, in the ability to be wise and to love. That there is in man the possibility of loving and of being wise, although he is not wise as he might be and does not love as he might, has been made known to me by much experience which you will see abundantly elsewhere.