1577. In like manner a mental image from the very inward heaven grows when it falls into the inward heaven. Those who are there are not aware of this, for in the inward heaven there are elements from nature, to which their mental images attach themselves, and which shape them. But in the heaven of spirits, or the spiritual world, these same elements take on a material quality, thus growing from the soul as it were into bodies. Thus their form, their qualities, and their conditions are augmented, according to the societies [they pass through].