hich He is, is the one sole substance and form from which
all that has been created exists, also that nothing can exist or come
into existence except from it. In Part III it was shown that all things
arise from that sun by derivations according to degrees.

[3] Who does not perceive by the reason and acknowledge that there is
some one essence from which is all essence, or one being from which is
all being? What can exist apart from being, and what can being be from
which is all other being except being itself? Being itself is also unique
and is being in itself. Since this is so (and anyone perceives and
acknowledges it by reason, or if not, can do so), what else follows than
that this Being, the Divine itself, Jehovah, is all in all in what is or
comes to be?

[4] It is the same if we say there is an only substance from which all
things are, and as there is no substance without form there is a single
form from which all things are. We have shown in the treatise mentioned
above that the sun of the angelic heaven is that substance and form, also
shown how that essence, substance and form is varied in things created.

[5] 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._ This also
was fully demonstrated in the treatise _Divine Love and Wisdom._ Whatever
appears to live in man is referable to will and understanding in him;
any-one can perceive by the reason and acknowledge that these two
constitute his life. What else is "This I will," or "This I understand,"
or "I love this," or "I think this"? And as man wills what he loves, and
thinks what he understands, all things of the will relate to love and
those of the understanding to wisdom. As no one has love or wisdom from
himself but only from Him who is love itself and wisdom itself, they are
from the Lord-from-eternity or Jehovah. If they were not, man would be
love itself and wisdom itself, thus God-from-eternity, at which the human
reason itself is horrified. Can anything exist except from a prior self?
Or the prior self exist except from one prior to it? And finally from a
first or from underived being?

[6] 3. _It is also good itself and truth itself, to which all things are
referable._ Everyone possessed of reason agrees and acknowledges that God
is good itself and truth itself, likewise that all good and truth are
from Him, therefore that any good and truth can come only from good
itsel