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42 world, for the sight of the mind flows into the sight of the eye, thus also the light of the spiritual world into the light of the natural world, but not the reverse."

The heat and light from the sun of the spiritual world, and all things which exist from and by means of them, are substantial, and are called spiritual; and the heat and light from the sun of this world, and all things which exist here by means of them, are material, and are called natural. The two worlds are quite similar as to external form, but as to internal form they are quite dissimilar. A spiritual garden, for example, is in appearance similar to a natural garden; but it is living, from the souls who dwell in it, while a natural garden is made with hands. The substances of the spiritual world are living like the mind itself. The desire of the will flows into the thought of the understanding and fashions it to the form of the desire; then the desire in the thought, which is its own form, descending into the imagination, presents itself in a mental picture, which is an object of intellectual sight. All this takes place within the mind whenever we think from affection with desire to create and