Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine WisdomSwedenborg, Emanuel
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Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom
Swedenborg, Emanuel
God (Christianity) -- Love; God (Christianity) -- Wisdom
384. Since all things of the mind have relation to the will and
understanding, and all things of the body to the heart and lungs, there
are in the head two brains, distinct from each other as will and
understanding are distinct. The cerebellum is especially the organ of
the will, and the cerebrum of the understanding. Likewise the heart and
lungs in the body are distinct from the remaining parts there. They are
separated by the diaphragm, and are enveloped by their own covering,
called the pleura, and form that part of the body called the chest. In
the other parts of the body, called members, organs, and viscera, there
is a joining together of the two, and thus there are pairs; for instance,
the arms, hands, loins, feet, eyes, and nostrils; and within the body
the kidneys, ureters, and testicles; and the viscera which are not in
pairs are divided into right and left. Moreover, the brain itself is
divided into two hemispheres, the heart into two ventricles, and the
lungs into two lobes; the right of all these having relation to the good
of truth, and the left to the truth of good, or, what is the same, the
right having relation to the good of love from which is the truth of
wisdom, and the left having relation to the truth of wisdom which is
from the good of love. And because the conjunction of good and truth is
reciprocal, and by means of that conjunction the two become as it were
one, therefore the pairs in man act together and conjointly in functions,
motions, and senses.
385. (5) By means of this correspondence many arcana relating to the will
and understanding, thus also to love and wisdom, may be disclosed. In the
world it is scarcely known what the will is or what love is, for the
reason that man is not able, by himself, to love, and from love to will,
although he is able as it were by himself to exercise intelligence and
thought; just as he is not able of himself to cause the heart to beat,
although he is able of himself to cause the lungs to respire. Now because
it is scarcely known in the world what the will is or what love is, but
it is known what the heart and the lungs are, - for these are objects of
sight and can be examined, and have been examined and described by
anatomists, while the will and the understanding are not objects of sight,
and cannot be so examined - therefore when it is known that these
correspond, and by correspondence act as one, many arcana relating to
the will and understanding may be disclosed that could not otherwise be
disclosed; those for instance relating to the conjunction of the will
with the understanding, and the reciprocal conjunction of the
understanding with the will; those relating to the conjunction of love
with wisdom, and the reciprocal conjunction of wisdom with love; also
those relating to the derivation of love into affections, and to the
consociation of affections, to their influx into perceptions and
thoughts, and finally their influx according to correspondence into the
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