God, even Jesus Christ," one does not know how much truth may be intended, or what idea it may yield the reader. The Doctor's "Statement of Being" may however be construed in agreement with the following from Swedenborg, the meaning of which cannot well be mistaken: "There is an only essence, an only substance and an only form, from which are all the essences, substances and forms that have been created. That one only essence, substance and form, is the Divine Love and Wisdom, from which are all things that have relation to love and wisdom. It is also Good itself and Truth itself, to which all things have relation. And those are the life from which are the life of all things and all things of life. Also that the Only, from which all else is, and the Itself, which alone is, is Omnipresent, Omniscient and Omnipotent. And this Only and Itself is the Lord from Eternity, or Jehovah."[1] In explanation of this last proposition, Swedenborg says, "God is One in essence and in person, and this God is the Lord; the Divine Itself, which is called Jehovah the Father, is the Lord from eternity; the Divine Human is the Son conceived from His Divine from eternity, and born in
- ↑ Divine Providence, n. 157.
