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Concerning heaven and its wonders and concerning hell - 1863 Author:Emanuel Swedenborg Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 27. Because there is such a distinction between the angels of the celestial kingdom and the angels of the spiritual kingdom, therefore they are not together, nor... more » do they have intercourse with each other; there is given communication only by intermediate angelic societies, which are called celestial- spiritual ; through these the celestial kingdom flows into the spiritual.' Hence it is, that although heaven is divided into two kingdoms, still it makes one. The Lord always provides such intermediate angels, through whom is communication and conjunction. 28. Because much is said in what follows concerning the angels of the one and the other kingdom, therefore the particulars are here omitted. THAT THERE ARE THREE HEAVENS. 29. There are three heavens, and thote most distinct from each other; the inmost or third, the middle or second, and the ultimate or first. They follow in succession, and subsist together, as the highest of man, which is the head, his middle, which is the body, and the ultimate, which is the feet; and as the highest part of a house, its middle, and its lowest. In such order also is the Divine which proceeds and descends from the Lord: thence, from the necessity of order, heaven is threefold. 30. The interiors of man, which are of his mind [raensj and mind [animns], are also in similar order; he has an inmost, a middle, and an ultimate : for into man when he was created, all things of divine order were collated, so that he was made divine order in form, and thence a heaven in its least effigy. Therefore also man communicates with the is, and that the things which are of the understanding, and not at the same time of the will, then vanish, because they are not in the man, n. 9069, 9071, 9282, 9386, 10153. J That between the two kingdoms there is comm...« less