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| That spiritual heat and spiritual light, in proceeding from the Lord as a sun, make one original: "make one"; meaning they act as a single, unified entity, just as His Divine Love and His Divine Wisdom make one | 99 |
| That the sun of the spiritual world appears at a middle altitude, as far from the angels as the sun of the natural world is from men | 103 |
| That the distance between the sun and the angels in the spiritual world is an appearance based on how much they receive the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom | 108 |
| That the angels are in the Lord, and the Lord in them; and that because the angels are recipients, the Lord alone is the essence of Heaven | 113 |
| That in the spiritual world the east is where the Lord appears as a sun, and the other quarters original: "quarters"; the cardinal directions: East, West, North, and South are determined by that location | 119 |
| That the directions in the spiritual world do not originate from the Lord as a sun, but from the angels according to their reception of Him | 124 |
| That the angels constantly turn their faces to the Lord as a sun, and thus have the south to their right, the north to their left, and the west behind them | 129 |
| That all the interiors the inner states or spiritual components of both the minds and the bodies of angels are turned toward the Lord as a sun | 135 |
| That every spirit, whatever his character, turns in the same way toward his ruling love | 140 |
| That the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom, which proceed from the Lord as a sun and cause heat and light in heaven, are the "proceeding Divine," which is the Holy Spirit | 146 |
| That the Lord created the universe and all things in it by means of the sun, which is the first proceeding of the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom | 151 |
| That the sun of the natural world is pure fire and therefore dead; and since nature originates from that sun, nature is also dead | 157 |
| That without two suns—the one living and the other dead—there could be no creation | 163 |
| That the goal of creation—which is that all things may return to the Creator and that there may be a conjunction a spiritual union or connection—exists in its ultimates original: "ultimates"; the final, most external, or physical level of existence | 167 |
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| That in the spiritual world there are atmospheres, waters, and earths, just as in the natural world; but the former are spiritual, whereas the latter are natural | 173 |
| That there are degrees of love and wisdom, and therefore degrees of heat and light, and degrees of atmospheres | 179 |
| That degrees are of two kinds: degrees of altitude vertical or discrete degrees, like steps on a ladder and degrees of latitude horizontal or continuous degrees, like the shading of light to dark | 184 |
| That the degrees of altitude are homogeneous of the same kind or nature, and follow one another in a series, like end, cause, and effect | 189 |
| That the first degree is fully present in all the subsequent degrees | 195 |
| That all perfections increase and ascend with these degrees and according to them | 199 |
| That in successive order, the first degree forms the highest and the third the lowest; but in simultaneous order, the first degree forms the inmost and the third the outmost | 205 |