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definite varieties of affection and thought, and consequent determinations to use. All these affections and thoughts of the life of the angels are the causes in and by which the inflowing divine life creates the objects of the heavenly world. The phenomenal world of heaven corresponds in every particular with the affections and perceptions of the angels. Land and sky; gardens, groves, flowers and fruits; animals and birds; habitations, and, in short, all things similar to those in the natural world, are there; and all are created from the Lord as a first cause, through the affections and perceptions of the angels as efficient causes. Everything in heaven, therefore, is in order from the Lord and corresponds with the life of the angels received from the Lord. All things there stand out around the angels, and around the angelic societies as produced or created by them. Those things which correspond to their permanent states remain constant; and those which correspond to varying states come, change and go with the affections and thoughts through which they are produced. The universe of heaven thus corresponds with the affections and perceptions of the internal man, and through these