nd eternal, thus timeless, endless and without limit; what is
seemingly proper to man thence is also infinite and eternal; but nothing
of this is actually proper to man, but the Lord's alone in him.

[2] Second: _The human being is in himself temporal and the Lord in
Himself eternal, and only the temporal can proceed from man, and from the
Lord only the eternal._ Man, we said, is in himself temporal and the Lord
in Himself eternal. Since only what is in a person can proceed from him,
nothing can proceed from man except what is temporal, and nothing from
the Lord except what is eternal. For the infinite cannot proceed from the
finite; that it can is a contradiction. The infinite, however, can
proceed from the finite, still not from the finite but from the infinite
by the finite. In turn, what is finite cannot proceed from the infinite;
this is also a contradiction; it can be produced from the infinite and
this is creation and not proceeding. On this subject see _Angelic Wisdom
about Divine Love and Wisdom,_ from beginning to end. If then the finite
proceeds from the Lord, as it does in many ways with man, it proceeds not
from the Lord but from man, and can be said to do so from the Lord by
man, because it so appears.

[3] This may be clarified by these words of the Lord:

Let your communication be, Yea, yea, Nay, nay, what is more than these
comes of evil (Mt 5:37).

Such is the speech of all in the third heaven. For they never reason
about divine things whether a thing is so or not, but see in themselves
from the Lord whether or not it is. To reason about divine things whether
they are so or not comes from the reasoner's not seeing them from the
Lord, but wanting to see them from himself, and what one sees from
oneself is evil. But still the Lord desires man to think and speak about
things divine, also to reason about them, in order that he may see
whether or not they are so. Such thought, speech and reasoning may be
said to be from the Lord in man provided the end is to see the truth,
although they are from the man until he sees and acknowledges the truth.
Meanwhile it is from the Lord alone that he can think, speak and reason;
for he does so from the two faculties, called liberty and rationality,
which are his from the Lord alone.

[4] Third: _Temporal things separate eternal things from themselves,
while eternal things join temporal things to themselves._ That temporal
things separate eternal things from themselv