Divine Love and Wisdom (Harleys) n. 381

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381. The heavens are distinguished into two kingdoms, one of which is called celestial and the other spiritual; in the celestial kingdom love to the Lord reigns, and in the spiritual kingdom wisdom from that love. That kingdom in which love prevails is called heaven s cardiac kingdom, and that where wisdom reigns, is called its pulmonary kingdom. It should be known that the whole angelic heaven in its entirety resembles one man and so appears in the Lord's sight. Consequently its heart makes one kingdom, and its lungs the other; for there is a general cardiac and pulmonary motion of the whole heaven, and an individual motion therefrom in each angel. The general cardiac and pulmonary motion is from the Lord alone, because love and wisdom come from Him alone; for these two motions are in the Sun, where the Lord is, and which exists from the Lord, and thence in the angelic heaven and in the universe. Banish [the idea of] spaces and think of omnipresence, and you will be convinced that it is so. That the heavens are distinguished into two kingdoms, celestial and spiritual, may be seen in the work on HEAVEN AND HELL (n. 26-28); and that the whole angelic heaven in its entirety resembles one man (n. 59-67).


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