34. It would be the same for the heavens where angels live if it were not for the world where we live. We, as human beings, are their foundation, container, and support, and we have the Word with us and in us.

Overall, the heavens are divided into two kingdoms, which are called the heavenly kingdom and the spiritual kingdom. These two kingdoms are founded upon the earthly kingdom where we live. A similar structure exists in the Word, which we have with us and in us.

See Heaven and Hell 20-28 on the division of the angelic heavens into two kingdoms, a heavenly one and a spiritual one.

5181. From the spirallings also one can gain some idea about which particular province in the Grand Man, and correspondingly in the body, spirits and angels belong to. The spirallings of those who belong to the province of the Lymphatic System are thin and quick in action, like water flowing smoothly, so that scarcely any spiralling movement can be detected. Those who belong to the lymphatic system are eventually brought into places which, they have said, are the counterpart to the Mesentery. I have been told that here there are labyrinths so to speak, from which, like chyle in the body, they are then borne away to various places in the Grand Man to serve some useful purpose there.