61. This is the angelic concept of person, so angels never pay attention to what someone's body is doing, but rather to the intent from which the body is acting. They call this the essential person, together with the intellect to the extent that it is acting in unison with the intent. ¹

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133. Now, since heaven is made up of angels, and since this is what angels are like, it follows that the whole heaven faces the Lord and that because it does, heaven is governed by the Lord as though it were a single individual--which is what heaven looks like in the Lord's sight. On heaven looking like a single individual in the Lord's sight, see Heaven and Hell 59-87 [59-86]. This is the cause of heaven's regions as well.