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 to the interiors of the angels, or to those things which belong to their faith and love, and thence to their intelligence and wisdom." Some "live in elevated places which appear like mountains,. . . and in a vernal atmosphere. There are presented before them, as it were, fields, harvests and vineyards. Everything in their houses glistens as if made of precious stones;. . others dwell in gardens where appear beds of flowers and grassplats beautifully arranged, and rows of trees round about, together with porticos and walks. The trees and flowers are varied every day. The view of the whole in general presents delights to their minds, and the varieties in particular continually renew them. And because these objects correspond to things divine, and those who behold them are in the knowledge of correspondences, they are perpetually replenished with new knowledges whereby their spiritual rational faculty is perfected."— H. H. n. 489.

"Substances in the spiritual world appear as if they were material, but still they are not. And since they are not material, therefore they are not constant, being correspondences of the affections of the angels, and permanent with their affections, and disappearing with them."—D. W., § VIII. See also A. E. n. 650, 1211, '12, '18, '26.

Such is the uniform teaching of Swedenborg concerning the objective world in heaven, and its determining cause. And can we conceive of anything more reasonable? It satisfhes the best instincts and deepest longings of our nature—yes, and the intuitions of our highest reason also. For what is more reasonable than that the outer world of those in the realms of bliss, should be in complete correspondence with their inner world?—a true