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Rh with the infinite things of the Divine love and wisdom.

There is with man, however, not only an internal mind, but an external mind adapting him to life in the world first and then in the world of spirits which is below heaven. When man rises out of the world of spirits into heaven, the seat of his consciousness is elevated to his internal mind; but while it remains in the external mind he is in the world of spirits. Now this external mind corresponds to the internal mind, and thus is connected with the Lord; it also creates a world of things around itself and beholds its affections and thoughts reflected in corresponding phenomena. These creations of the world of spirits lie next within the universe of nature, and are the causes and correspondences of the forces, forms and uses in nature. It is thus the Lord operates through heaven and the world of spirits to produce all things in order from Himself, and to sustain and keep all things in order, in heaven, in the world of spirits, and on the earth respectively. "Nothing is given in the created world which has not correspondence with something in the spiritual world, and which does not there in its own manner