in what follows, in this order:

i. Man is led and taught by the Lord alone.
ii. He is led and taught by the Lord alone through and from the angelic
heaven.
iii. He is led by the Lord through influx and taught through
enlightenment.
iv. Man is taught by the Lord through the Word and doctrine and preaching
from it, thus immediately by Him alone.
v. Man is led and taught in externals by the Lord to all appearance as of
himself.

155. (i) _Man is led and taught by the Lord alone._ This flows as a
general consequence from all that was demonstrated in the treatise
_Divine Love and Wisdom;_ from what was said in Part I about the Lord's
divine love and wisdom; in Part II about the sun of the spiritual world
and the sun of the natural world; in Part III about degrees; in Part IV
about the creation of the universe; and in Part V about the creation of
the human being.

156. Man is led and taught by the Lord alone in that he lives from the
Lord alone; for his life's will is led, and his life's understanding is
taught. But this is contrary to the appearance, for it seems to man that
he lives of himself, and yet the truth is that he lives from the Lord and
not from himself. Man cannot, however, be given a sense-perception of
this while he is in the world (the appearance that he lives of himself is
not taken away, for without it man is not man). This must be established
by reasons, therefore, which are then to be confirmed from experience and
finally from the Word.

157. That the human being has life from the Lord alone and not of himself
is established by these considerations: 1. There is an only essence,
substance and form from which all the essences, substances, and forms
exist that have been created. 2. The one essence, substance and form is
divine love and wisdom from which is all that is referable to love and
wisdom in man. 3. It is also good itself and truth itself to which all
things are referable. 4. Likewise it is life, from which is the life of
all and all things of life. 5. Again the only One and very Self is
omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. 6. This only One and very Self is
the Lord-from-eternity or Jehovah.

[2] 1. _There is an only essence, substance and form from which all the
essences, substances, and forms exist that have been created._ This was
demonstrated in the treatise _Divine Love and Wisdom_ (nn.44-46). In Part
II it was shown that the sun of the angelic heaven, which is from the
Lord and in w