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Rh in man. It is from that correspondence that heart in the Word signifies will, and also the good of love; and the breath of the lungs, understanding, and the truth of faith. Hence also it is that the affections are ascribed to the heart, although they are not in it nor from it.

"The correspondence of the two kingdoms of heaven with the heart and lungs, is the general correspondence of heaven with man; but there is a less general one with each of his members, organs, and viscera; what this is shall also be mentioned. Those who are in the head, in the Greatest Man, which is heaven, are in all good more than the rest; for they are in love, peace, innocence, wisdom, intelligence, and thence in joy and happiness; these flow into the head and into those things which are of the head with man, and correspond to them. Those who are in the breast, in the Greatest Man, which is heaven, are in the good of charity and faith, and they likewise flow into the breast of man, and correspond to it. But those who are in the loins, and in the organs devoted to generation there, in the Greatest Man or heaven, are in conjugal love. Those who are in the feet, are in the lowest good of