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 The earth is established that it can never be moved. The physical universe is the coexisting and indestructible basis of the spiritual. It is the footstool of the Lord.

This view of the connection between spirit and matter by influx and correspondence, starting from two co-existing solar centres, and thence pervading every form and atom of both the natural and spiritual worlds, is alike remarkable for its grandeur and its simplicity, the two essentials of a universal truth. It is the pivotal point around which will revolve a new and perfect philosophy, that shall make more music in the human mind than the fabled music of the spheres.

Heat and light are primary forces from which all others are derived. Every substance has form and properties determined by its relations to heat and light. So every spiritual form or idea has relation to love and wisdom, or what is synonymous, to goodness and truth, which are the heat and light of the spiritual world. This duality of relation is universal. Every thought in the Word of God has a specific relation to goodness and truth, or to the will and understanding, which is sometimes beautifully unfolded by Swedenborg.