It was said above that all things which are according to divine order correspond to heaven, and those which are contrary to order correspond to hell. "Whatsoever is in man; whether it be in the external man or the internal, has correspondence with the Grand Man. Without correspondence with the Grand Man, that is heaven, (or with the spiritual world, which is in correspondence with heaven or in the opposite) nothing in anywise exists or subsists, for the reason that it has not any connection with what is prior to itself, thus neither with the first, that is, with the Lord. What is unconnected, and thereby independent cannot subsist a single moment; for the cause of subsistence is connection with and dependence upon that from which is the all of existence. Hence it is that not only all and everything belonging to man corresponds, but also all and everything in the universe."[1]
The angels in one complex, as a Grand Man, correspond to the Lord, and thus infinite things from the Lord flow in according to correspondence. These infinite things become in the angels of heaven in-
- ↑ Arcana Cœlestia, N. 5377.
