DP 28
Heaven is conjunction with the Lord.
Heaven is not heaven owing to the
angels,
but owing to the Lord,
for the love and wisdom which angels
possess
and which make heaven heaven
come not from them but from the
Lord.
Indeed love and wisdom are the Lord in them.
DP 29
All conjunction in the spiritual
world
is brought about by contemplation.
When someone there thinks about
another
with a desire to speak with him,
the other becomes immediately
present,
and one sees the other in person.
The like occurs when someone
thinks about another
out of an affection of love for him,
but this
latter affection brings about their conjunction,
while the former brings
about
only the other's presence.
This phenomenon is peculiar to
the spiritual world.
The reason is that all there are spiritual beings.
It is different in the natural world,
in which all are material beings.
The like does occur
with people in the natural world
in the affections
and thoughts of their spirit;
but because in the natural world
there are
intervals of space,
while in the spiritual world
intervals of space are
only appearances,
therefore that which takes place
in the thought of
everyone's spirit,
in the spiritual world takes place actually.
We have said this much to make it known
how conjunction
of the Lord with angels
is brought about,
and the apparently reciprocal
conjunction
of angels with the Lord.
For angels all turn their faces to
the Lord,
and the Lord gazes upon their foreheads,
while the angels
behold the Lord with their eyes.
The reason is that the forehead
corresponds to
love and its affections,
while the eyes correspond to
wisdom and its perceptions.
But still, angels do not of
themselves
turn their faces to the Lord,
but the Lord turns them to Him.
And He turns them by flowing into their life's love,
and through that
entering into their perceptions and thoughts,
so as to turn the angels
to Him.
Such a cycle of love,
from love to thoughts and from
thoughts to love,
exists in all processes of the human mind -
a cycle
which may be called the cycle of life.
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