9707. For this reason the Lord has provided and ordained that a person's internal man shall be opened to the extent that his thought and will spring from heaven, that is, through heaven from the Lord - opened towards heaven, all the way to the Lord Himself. And conversely, for the same reason, a person's internal man shall be closed and his external man opened to the extent that his thought and will spring from the world, that is, through the world from self - opened towards the world and towards self.