Heaven and Hell (Harley) n. 32

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32. In each heaven there is an internal and an external. Those in the internal are there called internal angels, while those in the external are there called external angels. The internal and the external in the heavens, or in each heaven, have the same relation as the voluntary and its intellectual with a man, the internal being as the voluntary and the external as its intellectual. Every voluntary has its own intellectual, the one cannot exist without the other. The voluntary may be compared to a flame and its intellectual to the light therefrom.


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