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14 its heat being the effluence of His Divine Love, and its light being the effluence of His Divine Wisdom. From its heat, man, as to his soul or spiritual being, mediately derives from God his love or affection, and from its light he mediately derives from God his wisdom or intelligence. The united love and wisdom thus received constitute the spiritual life of his soul, even as the united heat and light proceeding from the natural sun constitute the mediate source of life from God to man's natural body. The spiritual world does not form any part of the material universe; nor is it at some inﬁnite distance from man; his soul or spirit even during his earthly life being intimately connected with it, and, indeed, although unconsciously, in it. The place called heaven is in the spiritual world, and is the permanent abode of angels, who are the "spirits of just men made perfect;" whereas the material world is the temporary abode of men who are created to become angels. The place called hell is also in the spiritual world; it is the abode provided for all those who, by a life of continued and wilful sin, have voluntarily become conﬁrmed in the love of evil, and thus have entirely destroyed Conscience within themselves.

"God is Love," and because it is of the very essence