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Rh loins, conjugal love; by arms and hands, the power of truth; by feet, the natural; by eyes, understanding; by nostrils, perception; by ears, obedience; by kidneys, the examination of truth; and so forth. Hence also it is that it is usual for a man to say of one who is intelligent and wise, that he has a head; of one who is in charity, that he is a bosom friend; of one who is in perception, that he has a quick scent; of one who is in intelligence, that he has a sharp sight; of one who is in power, that he has long arms; of one who wills from love, that it is from the heart. These and many other things, which are in man's speech, are from Correspondence; for such things are from the spiritual world, although man is ignorant of it.

"But though all things of man, as to the body, correspond to all things of heaven, still man is not an image of heaven as to external form, but as to the internal form, for the interiors of man receive heaven, and his exteriors receive the world. As far therefore as his interiors receive heaven, so far man as to them is a heaven in least form according to the image of the greatest; but as far as his interiors do not receive, so far he is not a heaven and an image of the greatest: