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 affects the angels and makes heaven, is love, all experience in heaven testifies; for all who are there are forms of love and charity. They appear of ineffable beauty, and love beams forth from their faces, from their discourse, and from every single act of their lives.

Moreover, from every angel and spirit proceed spiritual spheres of life which encompass them, whereby they are known as to the quality of the affections of their love, even when they are a great way off; for these spheres flow forth from the life of each one's affection, and thence of his thought, or from the life of his love and thence of his faith. The spheres proceeding from the angels are so full of love, that they affect the inmosts of the life of those present. They have several times been perceived by me, and have affected me in this wise. (H. H. n. 7-16.)

The will or love of every one constitutes the whole man in the hereafter; and the sphere of his life thence flows forth from him as an exhalation or vapor, and encompasses him, and makes as it were himself around him; somewhat like the effluvium encompassing vegetables in the world, which is also made sensible at a distance by odors; also that encompassing beasts, of which a sagacious dog is exquisitely sensible. Such an effluvium also diffuses itself from every man, as is also known from much experience. But when man lays