VIII.
THE HUMAN FORM OF HEAVEN.
HAT heaven in its whole complex resembles one man, is an arcanum not yet known in the world; but in heaven it is very well known. To know this, together with the specific and particular things relating to it, is the chief article of the intelligence of the angels. On this knowledge also depend many more things which, without it as their general principle, could not enter distinctly and clearly into the ideas of their minds. Because they know that all the heavens together with their societies resemble one man, therefore also they call heaven the Greatest and the Divine Man; Divine from this, that the Divine of the Lord makes heaven.
That celestial and spiritual things are arranged and conjoined into that form and image, cannot be conceived by those who have no just idea respecting things spiritual and celestial. They imagine that the terrestrial and material things which compose the ultimate of man, are what make him; and that he would not be man without them. But be it known to such that man is not man by virtue of these things, but by virtue of this: that he can understand what is true and will
