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.

4040. When the skull and the coverings surrounding the brain are removed, wonderful sinuously curving and overlapping masses of tissue are visible, in which there are deposited what are called the cortical substances. Running out from these there are fibres which constitute the medulla of the brain. These fibres proceed from there by way of nerves into the body and perform functions there as the brain bids and chooses. All of this is in perfect accord with the heavenly form, for such a form is imprinted by the Lord on the heavens, and from the heavens on the things within the human being, in particular on his cerebrum and cerebellum.