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 are of the world with man, but not into his rational faculty.

As all things which are according to divine order correspond to heaven, so all things which are contrary to divine order correspond to hell. All those which correspond to heaven, have relation to good and truth; and those which correspond to hell, have relation to the evil and the false.

Something shall now be said concerning the knowledge of correspondences and its use. It was remarked above, that the spiritual world which is heaven, is conjoined with the natural world by correspondences. Hence man has communication with heaven by correspondences; for the angels of heaven do not think from natural things as man does. Therefore when man is in the knowledge of correspondences, he may be associated with the angels as to the thoughts of his mind, and thus be conjoined with them as to his spiritual or internal man.

The Word was written by pure correspondences, in order that man might be conjoined with heaven; for even the minutest parts of the Word correspond to something spiritual. Therefore if man were well acquainted with correspondences, he would understand the spiritual sense of the Word, and become acquainted with arcana whereof he perceives nothing in the sense