Thus the Lord is All in all there. He
flows into all the angels, and into each of them. He disposes them; He
induces a likeness of Himself on them, and causes Heaven to be where
He is. Hence an angel is heaven in the least form; a society is heaven
in a greater form; and all the societies together are heaven in the
greatest form.
--_Heaven and Hell, nn._ 319, 54, 58
AN ACTUAL WORLD
In general, what appears in heaven, appears the same as it does in our
material world of three kingdoms. Things appear before the eyes of
angels just as objects of the three kingdoms do before the eyes of
men in the world. Still there is this difference: the things which
appear in heaven, have a spiritual origin, and those which appear in
our world a material origin. Objects of a spiritual origin affect the
senses of angels because these senses are spiritual, as those of a
material origin affect the senses of men, inasmuch as their senses are
material. Heavenly objects are said to have a spiritual origin,
because they exist from the Divine which proceeds from the Lord as a
Sun; and the Divine that proceeds from the Lord as a Sun is spiritual.
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