AE 622a - "belly"

AE 622a [8]
. . . because the "belly" signifies from correspondence
the interiors of the understanding and of thought,
and these, if they cleave to the earths there,
are infected and imbued with the falsities of evil.
For this reason, in the spiritual world
no one lies with the belly upon the ground;
and indeed, to walk there with the feet upon the ground
means to touch and drink in
what is exhaled from the hells with the corporeal natural,
which corresponds to the soles of the feet;
and this natural has no communication
with the thoughts of the understanding,
except in those who are in evils in respect to life
and in falsities in respect to doctrine.