{Footnote 1} In the Word the “breast” signifies charity (n. 3934, 10081, 10087).  The “loins” and organs of generation signify marriage love (n. 3021, 4280, 4462, 5050-5052).  The “arms” and “hands” signify the power of truth (n. 878, 3091, 4931-4937, 6947, 7205, 10019).  The “feet” signify the natural (n. 2162, 3147, 3761, 3986, 4280, 4938-4952).  The “eye” signifies understanding (n. 2701, 4403-4421, 4523-4534, 6923, 9051, 10569).  The “nostrils” signify perception (n. 3577, 4624, 4625, 4748, 5621, 8286, 10054, 10292).  The “ears” signify obedience (n. 2542, 3869, 4523, 4653, 5017, 7216, 8361, 8990, 9311, 9397, 10061).  The “kidneys” signify the scrutiny and correction of truth (n. 5380-5386, 10032).

98.  That there is such a correspondence of all things of heaven with all things of man has been made clear to me by much experience, by so much that I am as convinced of it as of any evident fact that admits of no doubt.  But it is not necessary to describe all this experience here; nor would it be permissible on account of its abundance.  It may be seen set forth in the Arcana Coelestia, where correspondences, representations, the influx of the spiritual world into the natural world, and the interaction between soul and body, are treated of.{1}

{Footnote 1} The correspondence of all the members of the body with the Greatest Man, or heaven, in general and in particular, from experience (n. 3021, 3624-3649, 3741-3750, 3883-3895, 4039-4054, 4218-4228, 4318-4331, 4403-4421, 4523-4533, 4622-4633, 4652-4660, 4791-4805, 4931-4953, 5050-5061, 5171-5189, 5377-5396, 5552-5573, 5711-5727, 10030).  The influx of the spiritual world into the natural world or of heaven into the world, and the influx of the soul into all things of the body, from experience (n. 6053-6058, 6189-6215, 6307-6326, 6466-6495, 6598-6626).  The interaction between soul and body, from experience (n. 6053-6058, 6189-6215, 6307-6327, 6466-6495, 6598-6626).

99.  But notwithstanding that all things of man’s body correspond to all things of heaven, it is not in respect to his external form that man is an image of heaven, but in respect to his internal form; for man’s interiors are what receive heaven, while his exteriors receive the world.  So far, therefore, as his interiors receive heaven man is in respect to them a heaven in least form, after the image of the greatest.  But so far as his interiors do not receive heaven he is not a heaven and an image of the greatest, although his exteriors, which receive the world, may be in a form in accordance with the order of the world, and thus variously beautiful.  For the source of outward beauty which pertains to the body is in parents and formation in the womb, and it is preserved afterwards by general influx from the world.  For this reason the form of one’s natural man differs greatly from the form of his spiritual man.  What the form of a man’s spirit is I have been shown occasionally; and in some who were beautiful and charming in appearance the spirit was seen to be so deformed, black and monstrous that it might be called an image of hell, not of heaven; while in others not beautiful there was a spirit beautifully formed, pure, and angelic.  Moreover, the spirit of man appears after death such as it has been in the body while it lived therein in the world.