truth from good.  They so turn themselves because all in the other life look towards what rules in their interiors, thus to their loves; and with angels and spirits the interiors determine the face; and in the spiritual world quarters are not fixed, as in the natural world, but are determined by the face.  In respect to his spirit man turns himself in like manner as a spirit does, backwards from the Lord if he is in love of self and the world, and towards the Lord if he is in love to the Lord and the neighbor.  But of this man is ignorant, because he is in the natural world where quarters are determined by the rising and setting of the sun.  But as this cannot be easily comprehended by men it will be elucidated hereafter when Quarters, Space, and Time in Heaven are treated of.

124.  Because the Lord is the sun of heaven and everything that is from Him looks to Him, He is also the common center, the source of all direction and determination.{1} So, too, all things beneath are in His presence and under His auspices, both in the heavens and on the earths.

  {Footnote 1} The Lord is the common center to which all things
  of heaven turn (n. 3633, 3641).

125.  From all this what has been said and shown in previous chapters about the Lord may now be seen in clearer light, namely: 

     That He is the God of heaven (n. 2-6).

     That it is His Divine that makes heaven (n. 7-12).

     That the Lord’s Divine in heaven is love to Him and
     charity towards the neighbor (n. 13-19).

     That there is a correspondence of all things of the world
     with heaven, and through heaven with the Lord (n. 87-115).

     Also that the sun and moon of the world are
     correspondences (n. 105).

126.  XV.  Light and heat in heaven.

That there is light in the heavens those who think from nature alone cannot comprehend; and yet such is the light in the heavens that it exceeds by many degrees the noon-day light of the world.  That light I have often seen, even during the evening and night.  At first I wondered when I heard the angels say that the light of this world is little more than a shadow in comparison with the light of heaven; but having seen it I can testify that it is so.  The brightness and splendor of the light of heaven are such as cannot be described.  All things that I have seen in the heavens have been seen in that light, thus more clearly and distinctly than things in this world.

127.  The light of heaven is not a natural light, like the light of the world, but a spiritual light, because it is from the Lord as a sun, and that sun is the Divine love (as has been shown in the foregoing chapter).  That which goes forth from the Lord as a sun is called in the heavens Divine truth, but in its essence it is Divine good united to Divine truth.  From this the angels have light and heat, light from Divine truth, and heat from Divine good.  As the light of heaven, and the heat also, are from such a source, it is evident that they are spiritual and not natural.{1}