ive and comprehend a Trine
in the one God, however, just as soul, body and outgoing life in angel
and man are comprehensible. As this Trine in One exists only in the Lord,
conjunction must be with Him. Use your power of reason together with your
liberty of thought, and you will see this truth in its own light; but
admit first that God is, and heaven, and eternal life.

[3] As, then, God is one, and the human being was made by creation an
image and likeness of Him, and inasmuch as by infernal love and its lusts
and enjoyments man has come into a love of all evils and thus destroyed
the image and likeness of God in him, it follows that it is the
continuous effort of the Lord's divine providence to conjoin man to
Himself and Himself to man and thus make him an image of Himself. It also
follows that this is to the end that the Lord may be able to bestow on
him the felicities of eternal life, for such is divine love.

[4] He cannot bestow them, however, nor make man an image of Himself,
unless man removes sins in the external man as of himself, because the
Lord is not only divine love but also divine wisdom, and divine love does
nothing except by its divine wisdom and in consonance with it. It is
according to divine wisdom that man cannot be conjoined to the Lord and
thus reformed, regenerated and saved unless he is allowed to act in
freedom according to reason, for so man is man. Whatever is according to
the Lord's divine wisdom is also of His divine providence.

124. To this let me append two arcana of angelic wisdom showing further
what divine providence is like. One is that the Lord never acts on one
thing by itself in man, but on all things at the same time, and the
other is that He acts at once from inmosts and outmosts. He never acts
on some one thing by itself but on all things together because all
things in man are in such connection and from this in such form that
they act not as a number but as one. We know that there is such
connectedness and by it such organization in man's body. The human mind
is in similar form as a result of the connection of all things, for the
mind is the spiritual man and truly the man. Hence man's spirit or the
mind in the body in its entire form is man. Consequently man is man
after death equally as he was in the world with the sole difference that
he has thrown off the clothing which made up his body in the world.

[2] As the human form, then, is such that all its parts form a communi