Love and Wisdom

  "The Lord liveth;
  and blessed be my rock;
  And exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation:
  Even the God that executeth vengeance for me,  
  And bringeth down peoples under me,
  And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies:

 Yea, thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me: Thou deliverest me from the violent man.

  Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the nations, And will sing praises unto thy name.

Great deliverance giveth he to his king: And sheweth lovingkindness to his anointed"

   " Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.   "  from Paul's letters to the Romans

Love and Wisdom are the two essentials of all things of man's life;

everything of that life, civil, moral, and spiritual, hinges upon these 

two, and apart from these two is nothing. 

It is the same with all things of the life of a society, larger or smaller, 
a kingdom, an empire, a church, and also the angelic heaven. Take away love and 

wisdom from these, and consider whether they be anything, and you will find that 

apart from love and wisdom as their origin they are nothing.

   Love together with wisdom in its very essence is in God. This no one can deny; 

for God loves every one from love in Himself, and leads every one from wisdom in 

Himself. The created universe, too, viewed in relation to its order, is so full of 

wisdom coming forth from love that all things in the aggregate may be said to be 

wisdom itself. 

For things limitless are in such order, successively and simultaneously, 

that taken together they make a one. It is from this, and this alone, that they 

can be held together and continually preserved.

   It is because the Divine Essence itself is Love and Wisdom that man has two 

capacities for life; from one of these he has understanding, from the other will. 

The capacity from which he has understanding derives everything it has from 

the influx of wisdom from God, and the capacity from which he has will derives 

everything it has from the influx of love from God.