AC 4525 - we were created...

AC 4525
... with man especially
there is a correspondence of all things with the spiritual world,
and that without this correspondence
he cannot subsist even for a moment;
for without correspondence
there would be nothing continuous from the very being of life,
that is, from the Lord;
thus there would be what is unconnected;
and what is unconnected is dissipated as a nothing.
The reason why correspondence with man is
more immediate and hence closer,
is that he has been created to apply to himself the life from the Lord,
and into the capacity of a possible elevation by the Lord
above the natural world in regard to his thoughts and affections,
and thereby to think of God and to be affected with the Divine,
and thus to be conjoined with Him,
quite differently from the lower animals.