“love is the life of man”
So reads the opening line of Swedenborg’s book on creation, Divine Love and
Wisdom. How strange that a book on the origin of the universe begins, not
with the Big Bang, but with a statement about love.
“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of
mankind is man,” says Alexander Pope in his poem, An Essay On Man. But the
story of mankind begins with God, and it encompasses everything: the world
of nature without, and the world of spirit within.
Every rock, leaf, animal, field, ocean, cloud and star speaks of God; as do
all the corresponding states of affection and thought that unfold within us.
As a great Vict ܚX[