If these qualities were not absolute in God they would never exist in
heaven or in the world, because they would be relatively nonexistent com-
pared to the Absolute. Every quality is what it is because it comes from
the Absolute, both as its source and as its point of reference.
“The Absolute (meaning the underlying divine reality) has no spe-
cific location. It is with those and in those who are in specific locations,
depending on their locations. Love and wisdom, goodness and truth, and
the life these qualities give are absolute in God; in fact, they are God
himself. A specific location cannot be attributed to them, and neither can
a progression from place to place as the source of their omnipresence. For
this reason the Lord says he is in the midst of people [Matthew 18 : 20 ];
and he is in them and they are in him [John 6 : 56 ; 14 : 20 ; 15 : 4 , 5 ].
[ 4 ] “Nevertheless, no one can comprehend God as he is in himself.
Therefore he is visible above the angelic heavens as a sun, which is the form
his essence takes. He himself as wisdom emanates from that sun in the
form of light, and he himself as love emanates from that sun in the form of
heat. That sun is not God himself. The divine love and wisdom surround-
ing him as they first go forth from him come to angels’ view as a sun.
“The Absolute in that sun is the Human Being.It is our Lord Jesus
Christ, including both the Divine Source and the Divine Human Manifesta-
tion.Since the Absolute, which is absolute love and absolute wisdom, was
in him as his soul from the Father, therefore divine life or life in itself was in
him. None of us is like this. The soul in us is not life; it is merely a vessel
for receiving life.
“In fact, the Lord teaches this when he says, ‘I am the way, the truth,
and the life’[John 14 : 6 ]; and in another passage, ‘As the Father has life in
himself,so he has granted the Son to have life in himself’(John 5 : 26 ). ‘Life
in himself ’ is God.”
They added that people who have any spiritual light at all can see
from all this that the underlying divine reality cannot be shared among
many, because it is united, uniform, absolute, and undivided. If anyone
were to claim that the divine reality could be shared, further points that
person made on the subject would contain obvious contradictions.26 Then the angels became aware that my thoughts included common
Christian ideas of God: ideas of a trinity of persons in unity, and a unity of
persons in the Trinity, and also of the Son of God’s birth from eternity. At
that point they said, “What are you thinking? Surely you are thinking
those thoughts from an earthly light that is incompatible with our spiritual