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Angelic Wisdom Concerning
The Divine Providence
by Emanuel Swedenborg
Table of Contents
| I. The Divine Providence is the government of the Divine Love and Wisdom of the Lord |
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| | II. The Divine Providence of the Lord has for its end a heaven from the human race |
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| | III. The Divine Providence of the Lord, in everything that it does, regards the Infinite and the eternal |
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| | IV. There are laws of the Divine Providence, and these are unknown to men |
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| | V. It is a law of the Divine Providence that man should act from freedom according to reason |
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| | VI. It is a law of the Divine Providence that man should as from himself remove evils as sins in the external man; and thus and not otherwise can the Lord remove evils in the internal man, and then at the same time in the external |
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| | VII. It is a law of the Divine Providence that man should not be compelled by external means to think and will, and thus to believe and love, the things of religion, but should persuade and at times compel himself to do so |
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| | VIII. It is a law of the Divine Providence that man should be led and taught by the Lord from heaven by means of the Word, and doctrine and preaching from the Word, and this to all appearance as of himself |
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| | IX. It is a law of the Divine Providence that man should not perceive and feel anything of the operation of the Divine Providence, but still that he should know and acknowledge it |
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| | X. There is no such thing as man?s own prudence. it only appears that there is, and there ought to be this appearance; but the Divine Providence is universal because it is in things most individual |
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| | XI. The Divine Providence regards eternal things, and not temporal things except so far as they accord with eternal things |
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| | XII. Man is admitted interiorly into the truths of faith and into the goods of charity only so far as he can be kept in them right on to the end of his life |
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| | XIII. The laws of permission are also laws of the Divine Providence |
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| | I. Confirmations from the Word in favour of nature against God, and in favour of human prudence against the Divine Providence (summarised in 236)) |
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| | II. Confirmations from the worldly prosperity of the wicked against the Divine Providence (summarised in 237)) |
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| | III. Confirmations from the religious conditions of various peoples against the Divine Providence (summarised in 238)) |
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| | IV. Confirmations from present-day religious conditions in favour of nature and human prudence (summarised in 239)) |
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| | XIV. Evils are permitted for the sake of an end, which is salvation |
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| | XV. The Divine Providence is equally with the wicked and with the good |
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| | XVI. The Divine Providence appropriates neither evil nor good to anyone; but one?s own prudence appropriates both |
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| | XVII. Every man may be reformed, and there is no such thing as predestination |
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| | XVIII. The Lord cannot act contrary to the laws of the Divine Providence, because to act contrary to them would be to act contrary to his Divine Love and his Divine Wisdom, thus contrary to himself |
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