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32 the spiritual world. The natural world and its laws and particular forms are exactly like the spiritual world and its laws and particular forms, only with this difference, that the natural world is material while the spiritual world is spiritual.

Let us illustrate in particular. In nature there is a sun that sends out heat and light. All nature is sustained by the sun. In the spiritual world there is a sun also. From it comes heat and light, and all life in the spiritual world is sustained by it. But in the spiritual world the Lord is the sun. The heat that flows from it is love; its light is truths So it is written, "The city has no need of the sun nor of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God did lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof." The sun in nature is material and its heat and light are material, but in the spiritual world the sun is spiritual because God is a spirit, and the heat and light are spiritual because love and truth are spiritual.