Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 330 pages of information about Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom.

Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 330 pages of information about Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom.

376.  It is permitted to introduce here, in the way of evidence, a representation of the correspondence of the will and understanding with the heart and lungs which was seen in heaven among the angels.  By a wonderful flowing into spiral movements, such as no words can express, the angels formed the likeness of a heart and the likeness of lungs, with all the interior structures therein; and in this they were falling in with the flow of heaven, for heaven from the inflowing of love and wisdom from the Lord strives to come into such forms.  They thus represented the conjunction of the heart and lungs, and at the same time the correspondence of these with the love of the will and with the wisdom of the understanding.  This correspondence and union they called the heavenly marriage; saying that in the whole body, and in its several members, organs, and viscera, it is the same as in the things belonging to the heart and lungs; also that where the heart and lungs do not act, each in its turn, there can be no motion of life from any voluntary principle, and no sensation of life from any intellectual principle.

377.  Inasmuch as the correspondence of the heart and lungs With the will and understanding is treated of in what now follows, and upon this correspondence is based that of all parts of the body, namely, the members, the organs of the senses, and the viscera throughout the body, and inasmuch as the correspondence of natural things with spiritual has been heretofore unknown, and yet is amply shown in two works, one of which treats of Heaven and Hell and the other, the Arcana Coelestia, of the spiritual sense of the Word in Genesis and Exodus, I will here point out what has been written and shown in those two works respecting correspondence.  In the work on Heaven and Hell:  The correspondence of all things of heaven with all things of man (n. 87-102).  The correspondence of all things of heaven with all things on earth (n. 103-115).  In the Arcana Coelestia, the work on the spiritual sense of the Word in Genesis and Exodus:  The correspondence of the face and its expressions with the affections of the mind (n. 1568, 2988, 2989, 3631, 4796, 4797, 4800, 5165, 5168, 5695, 9306).  The correspondence of the body, its gestures and actions, with things intellectual and things voluntary (n. 2988, 3632, 4215).  The correspondence of the senses in general (n. 4318-4330).  The correspondence of the eyes and of their sight (n. 4403- 4420).  The correspondence of the nostrils and of smell (n. 4624-4634).  The correspondence of the ear, and of hearing (n. 4652-4660).  The correspondence of the tongue and of taste (n. 4791-4805).  The correspondence of the hands, arms, shoulders and feet (n. 4931-4953).  The correspondence of the loins and organs of generation (n. 5050-5062).  Thy correspondence of the internal viscera of the body, especially of the stomach, thymus gland, the receptacle and ducts of the chyle and lacteals, and of the mesentery (n. 5171-5180, 5181, 5189).  The correspondence

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