freedom according to reason, for so man is man. Whatever is according to
the Lord's divine wisdom is also of His divine providence.

124. To this let me append two arcana of angelic wisdom showing further
what divine providence is like. One is that the Lord never acts on one
thing by itself in man, but on all things at the same time, and the
other is that He acts at once from inmosts and outmosts. He never acts
on some one thing by itself but on all things together because all
things in man are in such connection and from this in such form that
they act not as a number but as one. We know that there is such
connectedness and by it such organization in man's body. The human mind
is in similar form as a result of the connection of all things, for the
mind is the spiritual man and truly the man. Hence man's spirit or the
mind in the body in its entire form is man. Consequently man is man
after death equally as he was in the world with the sole difference that
he has thrown off the clothing which made up his body in the world.

[2] As the human form, then, is such that all its parts form a community
which acts as a whole, some one thing cannot be moved out of place or
altered in state except with adaptation of the rest, for if it were, the
form which acts as a whole would suffer. Hence it is plain that the Lord
never acts on any one thing without acting on all. So He acts on the
total angelic heaven since in His view it is like one man; so He acts on
each angel, for each angel is heaven in least form; so He acts also on
each man, most nearly on all things of man's mind and by these on all
things of his body; for man's mind is his spirit and in the measure of
conjunction with the Lord is an angel, and the body is obedience.

[3] It is to be well noted, however, that the Lord does act on each
particular thing in man singly, singularly so, when acting on all things