71. To make it clear that the merely natural man thinks of spiritual and Divine things from space, and the spiritual man [thinks] apart from space, let the following serve for illustration. The merely natural man thinks by means of ideas which he has acquired from the objects of sight, in all of which there is figure derived from length, breadth and height, and from form terminated by these, whether angular or circular. Those things are manifestly present in the ideas of his thought concerning visible things on earth; they are also present in the ideas of his thought concerning things not visible, such as civil and moral things. These indeed he does not see but yet they are present as continuous. It is not so with a spiritual man, especially with an angel of heaven. His thought has nothing in common with figure and form deriving anything from the length, breadth and height of space, but everything from the state of the thing from the state of life. Hence, instead of the length of space, he thinks of the good of a thing from the good of life, instead of the breadth of space, of the truth of a thing from the truth of life and instead of height, of degrees of these. Thus he thinks from the correspondence which there is between things spiritual and things natural. It is from this correspondence that in the Word, "length" signifies the good of a thing, "breadth" the truth of a thing, and "height" degrees of these. From this it is clear that when an angel of heaven thinks of the Divine Omnipresence, he simply cannot think otherwise than that the Divine fills all things apart from space. What an angel thinks is truth because the light (lux) which enlightens his understanding is the Divine Wisdom.