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 lies upon the shore. The wing of the bee in the garden beats at the palace-gate of the cloud, and the dew-drop on the flower holds up its little mirror to the sky.

So it is with affections and thoughts, which are spiritual things.

It is the life of heaven to receive affections and thoughts from the divine love and wisdom of the Lord, and to communicate them to others. This involves the love of God and of the neighbor, which is all the law and the prophets.

Affection and thought are united like soul and body, and correspond to each other. Every thought contains an affection as its secret essence and soul. Every idea which one spirit communicates to another, embodies something of his emotional as well as his intellectual nature. Angels continually yearn to give themselves away to others.

There are three great modes of expression by which the spiritual life of one soul manifests itself to others.

The first is by the variations of the face and the movements of the body. These changes in the bodily form are symbolical of the affections and thoughts which produce them. What a world of