Heaven and Hell #200
200. THE FORM OF HEAVEN WHICH DETERMINES ASSOCIATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS THERE
What the form of heaven is can be confirmed, in some measure, from what has been shown in the preceding sections, as that heaven is like itself in its greatest and its least things (72); that consequently, any one society is heaven in lesser form, and each angel in the least form (51-58). Also as the entire heaven resembles one Man, so every society of heaven resembles a Man in lesser form, and each angel in the least form (59-77); that the wisest are in the middle, and the less wise round about even to boundaries, and the same is true of any one society (43); and that those who are in the good of love dwell from the east to the west in heaven, and those who are in truths from good, from the south to the north, and the same is true of every society (148-149). All these things are in accord with the form of heaven. Consequently, it can be concluded from these things what that form is in general. 1
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1. [Swedenborg's footnote] The whole heaven, as to all the angelic societies, is arranged by the Lord according to His Divine order, because the Divine of the Lord with the angels makes heaven (Arcana Coelestia 3038, 7211, 9128, 9338, 10125, 10151, 10157).
Concerning the heavenly form (Arcana Coelestia 4040-4043, 6607, 9877).
