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 In this world we only perceive heat as heat, light as light. We have an intuitive perception that spiritual heat has some relation to love, and that spiritual light is in some way analogous to wisdom. But we have not grasped the idea which Swedenborg offers us, that love and wisdom are spiritual substances and powers acting upon the soul as heat and light act upon the body. In the other life we shall have the same sensation of heat and light which we have here; but in addition and by means of interior faculties, now shut but which will then be open, we will perceive the simultaneous inflowing of love into the will and of thought into the understanding.

How can it be made comprehensible to the natural mind that the light of the spiritual world is actually wisdom, intelligence, thought?

Swedenborg says:

"That the light of heaven has in it intelligence and wisdom, and that it is the intelligence of truth and the wisdom of good from the Lord, which appears as light before the eyes of the angels, has been given me to know by living experience. I have been elevated into that light, which glittered like the light radiating from diamonds, and whilst I was kept in it, I seemed to myself to be withdrawn