f and truth itself. All this is acknowledged by every rational
person when he first hears it. When it is said, then, that everything of
the will and understanding, of love and wisdom, or of affection and
thought in a man who is led by the Lord relates to good and truth, it
follows that all that such a man wills and understands or loves and has
for his wisdom, or is affected by and thinks, is from the Lord. Hence
anyone in the church knows that whatever good and truth a man has in
himself is not good and truth except as it is from the Lord. Since this
is true, all that such a man wills and thinks is from the Lord. It will
be seen in following numbers that an evil man can will and think from no
other source.

[7] 4. _The one essence, substance and form is likewise life, from which
is the life of all and all things of life._ This we have shown in many
places in the treatise _Divine Love and Wisdom._ At the first hearing the
human reason also agrees and acknowledges that all man's life is that of
the will and understanding, for if these are taken away he ceases to
live, or what is the same, that all his life is one of love and thought,
for if these are taken away he does not live. Inasmuch as all of the will
and understanding or all of love and thought in man is from the Lord, all
of his life, as we said above, is from Him.

[8] 5. _This only One and very Self is omnipresent, omniscient and
omnipotent._ This also every Christian acknowledges from his doctrine and
every gentile from his religion. In consequence, wherever he is, a man
thinks that God is there and that he prays to God at hand; thinking and
praying so, men cannot but think that God is everywhere, that is,
omnipresent; likewise omniscient and omnipotent. Everyone praying to God,
therefore, implores Him from the heart to lead him because He can lead
him; thus he acknowledges the divine omnipresence, omniscience and
omnipotence, doing so in turning his face to the Lord; thereupon the
truth flows in from the Lord.

[9] 6. This only One and very Self is the Lord-from-eternity or Jehovah.
In Doctrine of the New Jerusalem about the Lord it was shown that God is
one in essence and in person and that He is the Lord, and that the Divine
itself, called Jehovah Father, is the Lord-from-eternity; that the Divine
Human is the Son conceived by His Divine from eternity and born in the
world; and that the proceeding Divine is the Holy Spirit. He is called
"very Self" and "onl