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80 heaven, which good is called natural-spiritual. Those who are in the arms and hands, are in the power of truth from good. Those who are in the eyes, are in understanding. Those who are in the ears, are in hearing and obedience. Those who are in the nostrils, are in perception. Those who are in the mouth and tongue, are in discoursing from understanding and perception. Those who are in the kidneys, are in truth which examines, separates and corrects. Those who are in the liver, pancreas, and spleen, are in the various purification of good and truth: and so with the rest. They all flow into the like things of man, and correspond to them. The influx of heaven is into the functions and uses of the members; and the uses, because they are from the spiritual world, form themselves by such things as are in the natural world, and thus set themselves forth in the effect; thence is Correspondence.

"Hence it is that by those same members, organs, and viscera, in the Word such things are signified; for all things there have signification according to Correspondences. Thus by head is signified intelligence and wisdom; by breast, charity; by