DLW 83 - The Spiritual Sun; DLW 92 - Where We Dwell

DLW 83

There are two worlds, one spiritual and the other natural,
and the spiritual world does not derive any of its character
from the natural world,
nor the natural world any of its character
from the spiritual world.
They are completely different worlds,
communicating only through correspondent relationships,
the nature of which
we have shown many times elsewhere.

To illustrate this, take the following example.
Heat in the natural world
corresponds to the good of charity in the spiritual world,
and light in the natural world
corresponds to the truth of faith in the spiritual world.
Who does not see that heat and the good of charity,
and that light and the truth of faith,
are altogether different in character?

Even though these are so different in themselves,
still they accord by correspondence.
They so accord that
when a person reads in the Word of heat and light,
the spirits and angels who are with the person
then perceive, instead of heat, charity,
and instead of light, faith.

DLW 92

. . . many people have even imagined
the abodes of angels and spirits
to be in the upper atmosphere, and some in the stars,
thus within nature and not above or outside it.

But in fact angels and spirits
are altogether above or outside nature,
and they dwell in a world which exists under another sun.
And because intervals of space in that world
are appearances, . . .
therefore one cannot say
that they are in the upper atmosphere or in the stars;
for they dwell with people,
conjoined with the affections and thoughts of their spirits.
For the human being is a spirit.
It is owing to it that he thinks and wills.
Consequently the spiritual world is where people are,
and not at all removed from them.

In short, every person
in the interiors of his mind
is in that world, 
in the midst of spirits and angels there,
and he thinks because of its light,
and loves because of its warmth.