September 30, 2020

What God Doeth - This is Called Providence

Selection from Arcana Coelestia ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

That "what God doeth" is what is provided, is because everything that God (that is, the Lord) does, is providence, which being from the Divine has within it what is eternal and infinite
What is eternal, because it does not look to any terminus* from which, nor to any terminus* to which, it proceeds
What is infinite, because it simultaneously regards what is infinite in every singular, and every singular in what is universal.
This is called "providence;" and because there is such a quality in each and all things the Lord does, therefore His doing cannot be expressed by any other word than "providence." That in each and all things the Lord does, there is what is infinite;

(from Arcana Coelestia 5264)

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