Jehovah, Thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the
     enemy, Thou hast made my feet to stand in a broad place
     (Psalm 31:8).

     Out of straitness I called upon Jah; He answereth me in a
     broad place (Psalm 118:5).  Besides other passages (as in
     Isaiah 8:8; and in Habakkuk 1:6).  So in all other cases.

198.  From all this it can be seen that although there are spaces in heaven as in the world, still nothing there is reckoned in accordance with spaces but in accordance with states; and in consequence spaces there cannot be measured as in the world, but can be seen only from the state and in accordance with the state of the interiors there.{1}

{Footnote 1} In the Word length signifies good (n. 1613, 9487).  “Breadth” signifies truth (n. 1613, 3433, 3434, 4482, 9487, 10179).  Height signifies good and truth in respect to their degrees (n. 9489, 9773, 10181).

199.  The primary and veriest cause of this is that the Lord is present with everyone in the measure of his love and faith,{1} and that it is in accordance with the Lord’s presence that all things appear near or far away, for it is from this that all things in the heavens are determined.  Also it is through this that angels have wisdom, for it is through this that they have extension of thought and through this a sharing of all things in the heavens; in a word, it is through this that they think spiritually, and not naturally like men.

{Footnote 1} The conjunction and presence of the Lord with the angels is according to their reception of love and charity from Him (n. 290, 681, 1954, 2658, 2886, 2888, 2889, 3001, 3741-3743, 4318 4319, 4524, 7211, 9128).

200.  XXIII.  The form of heaven which determines affiliations and communications there.

What the form of heaven is can be seen in some measure from what has been shown in the preceding chapters; as that heaven is like itself both in its greatest and in its least divisions (n. 72); that consequently each society is a heaven in a lesser form, and each angel in the least form (n. 51-58); that as the entire heaven reflects a single man, so each society of heaven reflects a man in a lesser form, and each angel in the least form (n. 59-77); that the wisest are at the center, and the less wise are round about even to the borders, and the like is true of each society (n. 43); and that those who are in the good of love dwell from the east to the west in heaven, and those who are in truths from good from the south to the north; and the same is true of each society (n. 148, 149).  All this is in accord with the form of heaven; consequently it may be concluded from this what this form is in general.{1}