Angelic Wisdom concerning Divine Providence by Emanuel Swedenborg tr from the Original Latin by William F Wunsch (2009).pdf

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Angelic Wisdom concerning
Divine Providence
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
Translated from the Original Latin by
William F. Wunsch
S
TANDARD
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DITION
SWEDENBORG FOUNDATION
West Chester, Pennsylvania
© 2009 Swedenborg Foundation
This version was compiled from electronic files of the
Standard Edition of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg as
further edited by William Ross Woofenden. Pagination of
this PDF document does not match that of the
corresponding printed volumes, and any page references
within this text may not be accurate. However, most if not
all of the numerical references herein are not to page
numbers but to Swedenborg’s section numbers, which are
not affected by changes in pagination. If this work appears
both separately and as part of a larger volume file, its
pagination follows that of the larger volume in both cases.
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Contents
Editor’s Preface
Translator’s Preface
1. Divine Providence Is Government by the Lord’s Divine Love
and Wisdom
2. The Lord’s Divine Providence Has for It’s Object a Heaven
from the Human Race
3. In All That It Does the Lord’s Divine Providence Looks to What
Is Infinite and Eternal
4. There Are Laws of Divine Providence That Are Unknown to
Men
5. It Is a Law of Divine Providence That Man Shall Act from
Freedom according to Reason
6. It Is a Law of the Divine Providence That Man Shall Remove
Evils as Sins in the External Man of Himself, and Only So Can
the Lord Remove the Evils in the Internal Man and at the
Same Time in the External
7. It Is a Law of the Divine Providence That Man Shall Not Be
Compelled by External Means to Think and Will, Thus to
Believe and Love What Pertains to Religion, but Bring Himself
and at Times Compel Himself to Do So
8. It Is a Law of Divine Providence That Man Shall Be Led and
Taught by the Lord out of Heaven by Means of the Word and
Doctrine and Preachings from It, and This to All Appearance
as of Himself
9. It Is a Law of Divine Providence That Man Shall Not Perceive
or Feel Any of the Activity of Divine Providence, and Yet
Should Know and Acknowledge Providence
10. There Is No Such Thing as One’s Own Prudence; There Only
Appears to Be and It Should So Appear; but Divine Providence
Is Universal by Being in the Least Things
11. Divine Providence Looks to What Is Eternal, and to the
Temporal only as This Accords with eternal
12. Man Is Not Admitted Inwardly into Truths of Faith and
Goods of Charity except as He Can Be Kept in Them to the
Close of Life
13. Laws of Toleration Are Also Laws of Divine Providence
14. Evils Are Tolerated in View of the End, Which is Salvation
15. Divine Providence Deals Impartially with the Evil and the
Good
16. Divine Providence Appropriates Neither Evil nor Good to
Anyone, but Ones Own Prudence Appropriates Both
17. Every Man Can Be Reformed, and There Is No Predestination
[as Commonly Understood]
18. The Lord Cannot Act Contrary to the Laws of Divine
Providence Because to Do So Would Be to Act Contrary to
His Divine Love and Wisdom, Thus Contrary to Himself
Critical Notes
Index of Scripture Passages
Index
DIVINE PROVIDENCE
1
Editor’s Preface
Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence,
usually referred to
simply as
Divine Providence,
was first published in Latin in
Amsterdam in 1764. It is the sequel to Swedenborg’s
Divine Love
and Wisdom
(1763) and deals with how God oversees human life
and all of creation. It is based in part on a doctrinal treatise in the
author’s posthumous work
Apocalypse Explained,
which is
interwoven in the text of paragraphs 1135 to 1194.
Swedenborg first defines divine providence and then states the
purpose and ideology of God’s foresight, that divine providence in
all that it does looks only to what is infinite and eternal in order
that there may be a heaven of angels from the human race. Various
laws under which providence operates are explained, including
details about the true nature of the spiritual world, as well as the
hope of salvation for all people. Finally, explanations are given as to
why evil and human suffering are tolerated.
Divine Providence
ranks second only to
Heaven and Hell
as
Swedenborg’s most popular work. At least a dozen separate
translations have been made into English, with many reprints of
each. It has also been translated into Danish, French, German,
Italian, Polish, Russian and Swedish. The present English version
by William F. Wunsch was first published in paperback in 1963
and later replaced the 1899 translation of John C. Ager as part of
the standard edition. For this second edition the Wunsch text was
electronically scanned so that it could be completely reset in a more
readable typeface. All notes (which appeared as footnotes in the
previous edition) are now referenced by consecutive superscripts
and will be found collected at the end of the volume.
As with previous printings, the bold numerals in brackets [2], [3],
etc., indicate divisions within the author’s numbered sections that
were introduced for the convenience of the reader by John

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