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contentsixPart 4[56] §§282–284 / The Lord from eternity, who is Jehovah, createdthe universe and everything in it not from nothing butfrom himself. 119[57] §§285–289 / The Lord from eternity, or Jehovah, could nothave created the universe and everything in it except as a person. 121[58] §§290–295 / The Lord from eternity, or Jehovah, brought forththe sun of the spiritual world out of himself, and created theuniverse and all its contents from it. 123[59] §§296–301 / There are three things in the Lord that are theLord—a divine element of love, a divine element of wisdom,and a divine element of service. These three things are madevisible outside the sun of the spiritual world—the divine elementof love through its warmth, the divine element of wisdomthrough its light, and the divine element of service throughthe atmospheres that enclose it. 126[60] §§302–304 / The atmospheres—three in number in eachworld, spiritual and physical—in their final forms terminatein the kinds of material substance characteristic of our earth. 128[61] §§305–306 / There is nothing of absolute Divinity in thematerial substances that make up earth, but they are stillderived from absolute Divinity. 129[62] §§307–318 / All useful functions, which are the goals ofcreation, are in forms, and they get these forms from thematerial substances characteristic of earth. 130[63] §§319–326 / From a functional point of view, everything inthe created universe is in our image; and this testifies that Godis human. 136[64] §§327–335 / All of the Lord’s creations are useful functions;and they are useful functions in the sequence, on the level, andin the specific way that they relate to humanity and throughhumanity to the Lord, their source. 138[65] §§336–348 / Evil functions were not created by the Lord.Rather, they came into being along with hell. 142[66] §§349–357 / What we can see in the created universe bearswitness to the fact that nature has brought forth nothing and