DP 124 The Lord never acts upon one things in a person without acting upon all

Divine Providence #124

Topics covered:

  • For a person’s mind is an angel, in the measure of its conjunction with the Lord
  • With the body being its obedient servant
  • The Lord never acts upon one thing in a person without acting upon all things in him
  • This is why the Lord is called the First and the Last

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”

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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.