Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 3632

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3632. Divine order and consequent heavenly order do not extend beyond man as their furthest limit - beyond the things related to his body, namely his gestures, actions, facial expressions, speech, external sensations, and the delights that go with these. Such bodily things are the furthest limits to which order extends and to which influx extends. But the interior things which flow in are not in themselves such as they are seen to be in external things but have a totally different face, countenance, sensation, and delight. Correspondences teach the nature of interior things, as do representations, dealt with already. The fact that they are different is clear from actions which flow from the will, and from utterances which flow from thought. Actions of the body are not such as they are in the will, nor are verbal utterances such as they are in thought. From this it is also evident that natural acts flow from spiritual, since things of the will and those of thought are spiritual; and that spiritual things in a correspondential way present a likeness of themselves in natural, even though in themselves they are quite different.


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