created wisdom
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- creation_order
- created before all things
- description
- A sublime, intellectual creature made by God before all things, not coeternal with God but partaking in His eternity. It is described as a 'chaste city,' 'mother which is above,' 'house of God,' and 'Jerusalem my country/mother,' which remains in perpetual contemplation of God.
- nature
- intellectual, spiritual, mutable (but cleaves to God), not coeternal
- other_names
- intellectual nature, chaste city, mother which is above, house of God, Jerusalem
Relationships
- cleaves_toGod
- description
- Created Wisdom maintains a chaste and strong affection for God, preventing it from varying or waxing dark.
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- cleaving unto the true and truly eternal God
- is_notcoeternal with God
- description
- The text explicitly states that Created Wisdom, though eternal in its own measure, did have a beginning and is therefore not coeternal with God.
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- source_text
- Nor yet is it coeternal with Thee, O God, because not without beginning
- contemplateslight
- description
- The created wisdom, being intellectual nature, becomes light itself through its contemplation of the divine light.
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- source_text
- intellectual nature, which by contemplating the light, is light.
- extracted_fromSource
- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T21:55:17.758Z
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