For man
by virtue of his rationality is able to think whatever he pleases, either
with or against God, either with or against the neighbor; he is also able
to will and to do what he thinks; but when he sees evil and fears
punishment, he is able, by virtue of his freedom, to abstain from doing
it. By virtue of these two capacities man is man, and is distinguished
from beasts. Man has these two capacities from the Lord, and they are
from Him every moment; nor are they taken away, for if they were, man's
human would perish. In these two capacities the Lord is with every man,
good and evil alike; they are the Lord's abode in the human race; from
this it is that all men live for ever, both the good and evil. But the
Lord's abode in man is nearer as by the agency of these capacities man
opens the higher degrees, for by the opening of these man comes into
higher degree of love and wisdom, thus nearer to the Lord. From this it
can be seen that as these degrees are opened, man is in the Lord and the
Lord in him.

241. It is said above, that the three degrees of height are like end,
cause, and effect, and that love, wisdom, and use follow in succession
according to these degrees; therefore a few things shall be said here
about love as being end, wisdom as being cause, and use as being effect.
Whoever consults his reason, if it is enlightened, can see that the end
of all things of man is his love; for what he loves that he thinks,
decides upon, and does, consequently that he has for his end. Man can
also see from his reason that wisdom is cause; since he, that is, his
love, which is his end, searches in his understanding for its means
through which to attain its end, thus consulting its wisdom, and these
means constitute the instrumental cause. That use is effect is evident
without explanation. But one man's love is not the same as another's,
neither is one man's wisdom the same as another's; so it is with use.
And since these three are homogeneous (as was shown above, n. 189-194),
it follows that such as is the love in man, such is the wisdom and such
is the use. Wisdom is here spoken of, but by it what pertains to man's
understanding is meant.

242. SPIRITUAL LIGHT FLOWS IN WITH MAN THROUGH DEGREES, BUT NOT SPIRITUAL
HEAT, EXCEPT SO FAR AS MAN FLEES FROM EVILS AS SINS AND LOOKS TO THE LORD.

It is evident from what has been shown above that from the sun of heaven,
which is the first proceeding of Divine Love and Divine Wisdom