AC 9402 - Heaven, "The Habitation of God"

AC 9402 [1, 2]

The angelic heaven is said to shine through
when truth Divine shines through.
For the whole heaven is nothing but
a receptacle of truth Divine,
because every angel is a reception of it in particular;
thus all the angels,
or the whole heaven, are so in general.
From this, heaven is called "the habitation of God,"
and also "the throne of God,"
because by "habitation" is meant the truth Divine
that proceeds from the Lord
received in the inmost heaven,
which relatively is good;
and by "throne" is meant truth Divine from the Lord
received in the middle heaven.

. . . when mention is made in the Word of "the heavens,"
and also of "the heavens of heavens,"
in the internal sense are meant the angelic heavens.
For the ancients had no other idea of the visible heaven
than that the heavenly inhabitants dwell there,
and that the stars are their habitations.
Similar also at this day is the idea of the simple,
and especially of little children.
From this also people look upward to heaven
when praying earnestly to God.
This also is from correspondence;
for in the other life a heaven with stars appears,
yet not the heaven that appears to people in the world;
but a heaven that appears in accordance with
the state of intelligence and wisdom
of the spirits and angels.
The stars there are knowledges of good and truth;
and the clouds
which are sometimes seen beneath the heaven
are of various meanings according to their colors,
their translucence, and their movements;
the blueness of heaven is truth transparent from good.