Verse 7. And these goods are to be accompanied by their corresponding truth, which, generally, is the truth of faith; for truth is the form or expression of good, and through it good is perpetually in the memory; and thus the Lord is acknowledged and worshiped from love and by faith conjoined.

116. THE SUN IN HEAVEN

In heaven, neither the sun of the world nor anything from that sun is seen, because it is wholly natural. In fact, nature has its beginning from that sun and whatever is produced by means of it is called natural. But the spiritual, in which is heaven, is above nature and quite distinct from what is natural, nor is there communication between the two except by means of correspondences. What the distinction between them is may be understood from the things said before about degrees (38), and what the communication is from the things said in the preceding two sections about correspondences.