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Rh relation of the two worlds; and thus of causes and effects in either world separately. The whole natural world corresponds to the whole spiritual world; and every single thing in the natural world to something in the spiritual world which is its cause. Thus heat corresponds to love, and light to wisdom; the heart corresponds to the will and the affections, and the lungs to the understanding and its thoughts. "The spiritual term is on one side and the natural on the other, and the two are equated; what love is in the spiritual world and in man, that heat is in the natural world and in the human body; what the will and the affections are in the soul, that the heart and the streaming arteries are in the body; what the understanding and the thoughts are in the mind that the lungs and their internal ramifications and air-cells, and their breaths and breathings, are in the deep places of the chest. Everything, in short, corresponds to some spiritual thing; is in active partnership with it; and could not long exist without it."

All and everything in the created universe has such correspondence with man that it may be said that man is a little universe. All and everything in man which is