nd instructed as one is in the world,
and by the affection of good and truth is imbued with wisdom and becomes
an angel. So could the man become who is brought up and instructed in the
world; the same is in him as in an infant. On infants in the spiritual
world see the work _Heaven and Hell,_ London, 1758 (nn. 329-345).

[10] This does not take place, however, with many in the world because
they love the first level of their life, called natural, and do not
purpose to withdraw from it and become spiritual. The natural degree of
life, in itself regarded, loves only self and the world, for it keeps
close to the bodily senses, which are to the fore, also, in the world.
But the spiritual degree of life regarded in itself loves the Lord and
heaven, and self and the world, too, but God and heaven as higher,
paramount and controlling, and self and the world as lower, instrumental
and subservient.

[11] Fourth: _Divine love cannot but will this, and divine wisdom cannot
but provide it._ It was fully shown in the treatise _Divine Love and
Wisdom_ that the divine essence is divine love and wisdom, and it was
also demonstrated there (nn. 358-370) that in every human embryo the Lord
forms two receptacles, one of the divine love and the other of the divine
wisdom, the former for man's future will and the latter for his future
understanding, and that in this way the Lord has endowed each human being
with the faculty of willing good and the faculty of understanding truth.

[12] Inasmuch as man is endowed from birth with these two faculties by
the Lord, and the Lord then is in them as in what is His own with man, it
is manifest that His divine love cannot but will that man should come
into heaven and His divine wisdom cannot but provide for this. But since
it is of the Lord's divine love that man should feel heavenly blessedness
in himself as his own, and this cannot be unless man is kept in the
appearance that he thinks, wills, speaks and acts of himself, the Lord
can therefore lead man only according to the laws of His divine
providence.

325. (ii) _Of divine providence, therefore, every man can be saved, and
those are saved who acknowledge God and live rightly._ It is plain from
what has been demonstrated above that every human being can be saved.
Some persons suppose that the Lord's church is to be found only in
Christendom, because only there is the Lord known and the Word possessed.
Still many believe that the Lord's church is