and also there is a spiritual world; wherefore as far as man is spiritual, so far he is a medium of conjunction; but as far as he is natural and not spiritual, so far he is not a medium of conjunction. Still there continues, without man as a medium, a divine influx into the world, and also into those things which are from the world with man, but not into his rational.
"As all things which are according to divine order, correspond to heaven, so all things which are contrary to divine order, correspond to hell. The things which correspond to heaven all have relation to good and truth; those which correspond to hell, to evil and the false."[1]
The spiritual body is in form and quality like the mind, being inwardly pure and orderly if the mind be so, and outwardly beautiful and healthy; while on the other hand if the mind be evil and disorderly the spiritual body is inwardly defiled and outwardly deformed and diseased. And since the natural body corresponds with the spiritual body and derives influx from it, with the adult sufficiently advanced in years it becomes in quality more or less like the mind. Evils
- ↑ Heaven and Hell, N. 112, 113.
