177. The fact that the spiritual world has in it bodies of water and also lands like the natural world, with the difference that bodies of water and lands in the spiritual world are spiritual-this we have declared above and shown in the book Heaven and Hell. Moreover, because they are spiritual, they are actuated and modified by the heat and light of the sun by means of the atmospheres arising from it, just as bodies of water and lands in the natural world are actuated and modified by the heat and light of the sun of their world by means of its atmospheres.