{Footnote 1} In the Word what is interior is expressed by what is higher and what is higher signifies what is interior (n. 2148, 3084, 4599, 5146, 8325).  What is “high” signifies what is internal, and likewise heaven (n. 1735, 2148, 4210, 4599, 8153).

{Footnote 2} In heaven, mountains, hills, rocks, valleys, and lands are seen exactly the same as in the world (n. 10608).  On the mountains angels who are in the good of love dwell, on the hills those who are in the good of charity, on the rocks those who are in the good of faith (n. 10438).  Therefore in the Word “mountains” signify the good of love (n. 795, 4210, 6435, 8327, 8758, 10438, 10608).  “Hills” signify the good of charity (n. 6435, 10438).  “Rocks” signify the good and truth of faith (n. 8581, 10580).  “Stone,” of which rock consists, in like manner signifies the truth of faith (n. 114, 643, 1298, 3720, 6426, 8609, 10376).  This is why “mountains” signify heaven (n. 8327, 8805, 9420).  And “the summit of a mountain” signifies the highest part of heaven (n. 9422, 9434, 10608).  Also why the ancients had their holy worship on mountains (n. 796, 2722).

189.  There are also angels who do not live associated together, but apart, house by house.  These dwell in the midst of heaven, since they are the best of angels.

190.  The houses in which angels dwell are not erected, as houses in the world are, but are given to them gratuitously by the Lord, to everyone in accordance with his reception of good and truth.  They also change a little in accordance with changes of the state of interiors of the angels (of which above, n. 154-160).  Everything whatsoever that the angels possess they hold as received from the Lord; and everything they have need of is given them.

191.  XXII.  Space in heaven.

All things in heaven appear, just as in the world, to be in place and in space, and yet the angels have no notion or idea of place and space.  As this must needs sounds like a paradox, I will endeavor to present the matter in a clear light, as it is of great importance.

192.  All changes of place in the spiritual world are effected by changes of state of the interiors, which means that change of place is nothing else than change of state.{1} In this way I have been taken by the Lord into the heavens and also to the earths in the universe; and it was my spirit that so journeyed, while my body remained in the same place.{2} Such are all movements of the angels; and in consequence they have no distances, and having no distances they have no spaces, but in place of spaces they have states and their changes.