12. (v. 3) Blessed. That this signifies those in whom heaven is, is evident from the signification of blessed, as denoting one who is happy to eternity, that is, one in whom heaven is. The blessedness which is not eternal is indeed called blessedness, but yet respectively it is not; for it passes away, and that which passes away compared with that which does not pass away, is as nothing. It is said, "in whom heaven Is," because heaven is in man; the heaven which is without man flows into the heaven which is in him, and is received in so far as they correspond. (That heaven is in man, and that the internal of the man who is in celestial love is heaven in its least form, corresponding to the greatest, may be seen in the work, Heaven and Hell, n. 51-58: and that he comes into heaven who has heaven in himself, may be seen in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem, n. 232-236.)