1340. Therefore, since the universal heaven reflects a Human being, as shown before [488, 499], so the heavens in their order reflect the vital parts or souls, but the heaven of spirits a body, which must function in the same way as the human body, in that it must be servile so that its spirits may receive goodness through the heavens from the Lord, Who Alone is Life.

A heaven of spirits which so serves enjoys the good qualities of the heavens. And the heavens then also believe no otherwise than that the spirits are their body, just as the spirits think that the human body is theirs. This was said by way of heaven to angels and spirits. 1748, 14 March.

But there are many, especially spirits, who do not like to be servants, but their own masters. They do not want to grasp those matters, or could not.