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Rh into man's will, and mediately through the will into his thought; or, what is the same, He flows-in immediately into good, and mediately through good into truth; for that is called good which is of the will and thence of the act, but that is called truth which is of the memory and thence of the thought.

All truth likewise is turned into good and implanted in the love as soon as it enters the will. But so long as truth is in the memory and thence in the thought, it does not become good, nor does it live, nor is it appropriated to man; since man is man from the will and thence from the understanding, and not from the understanding separate from will.

Because there is such a distinction between the angels of the celestial and those of the spiritual kingdom, therefore they do not dwell together, nor do they hold intercourse with each other. There is communication between them only by intermediate angelic societies, which are called celestial-spiritual; through these the celestial kingdom flows into the spiritual. Hence it is, that, although heaven is divided into two kingdoms, still it makes one; for the Lord always provides such intermediate angels through whom there may be communication and conjunction. (H. H., n. 20-27.)