Divine Providence #107
Topics covered:
- How a person is like a tree (in detail)
- Fruit is like the delight of an affection, its seeds being the thoughts that delight contains
- Hellish love like a spider in its web where flies flitting about are caught, wrapped up, and devoured
From Chapter 5: “It is a Law of Divine Providence That a Person Put Away as If of Himself Evils as Sins in His External Self, and That the Lord Be Able Only Then to Put Away Evils in His Internal Self and at the Same Time in His External One”
Angelic Wisdom regarding Divine Providence is a work of the Heavenly Doctrine penned by Emanuel Swedenborg. First published in the Latin language in 1764. Translated by N.B. Rogers for the General Church. Used with permission. Read by the Rev. Judah Synnestvedt.
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