y One" because, as was said, the Lord-from-eternity
or Jehovah is life itself, being love itself and wisdom itself or good
itself and truth itself, from which are all things. That the Lord created
all things from Himself and not from nothing may be seen in the treatise
_Divine Love and Wisdom_ nn. 282-284, 349-357. So the truth that the
human being is led and taught by the Lord alone is established by
reasons.

158. This same truth is established in angels not only by reasons but
also by living perceptions, especially with angels of the third heaven.
They perceive the influx of divine love and wisdom from the Lord.
Perceiving it and in their wisdom aware that love and wisdom are life,
they declare that they live from the Lord and not of themselves, and not
only say so but love and will it so. Yet they are in the full appearance
that they live of themselves, yes, more strongly in the appearance than
other angels. For as was shown above (nn. 42-45) the more nearly one is
united with the Lord, the more distinctly does he seem to himself to be
his own, and the more plainly is he aware that he is the Lord's. For many
years now it has been granted me to be in a similar simultaneous
perception and appearance, and I am fully convinced that I will and think
nothing from myself but that it only appears to be from myself; it has
also been granted to love and will it so. The same truth may be
established by much else from the spiritual world, but these two
references must suffice now.

159. It is plain from the following passages in the Word that life is the
Lord's alone.

I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me, though he die,
shall live (Jn 11:25).

I am the way and the truth and the life (Jn 14:6).

The Word was God . . . and in Him was life; and the life was the light of
men (Jn 1:1, 4).

"The Word" in this passage is the Lord.

As the Father has life in Himself, so has he given the Son to have life
in Himself (Jn 5:26).

From the following it is clear that man is led and taught by the Lord
alone:

Without Me you can do nothing (Jn 15:5).

A man cannot receive anything unless it is given him from heaven (Jn
3:27).

A man cannot make one hair white or black (Mt 5:36).

By "hair" in the Word the least of all is signified.

160. It will be shown in what follows in an article of its own that the
life of the wicked has the same source; now this will merely be
illustrated by a comparison. Heat and