1115. People who had been part of the earliest church, which was called Humankind, or Adam — heavenly people — are high up overhead, where they live together in sublime happiness. They said that others rarely approach them, except for the occasional visitor from elsewhere, or as they put it, from the universe.
Their position so high above the head, they added, was not due to inflated pride; on the contrary, the goal was to allow them to govern the people there. 1
Footnotes:
1. Secrets of Heaven 8054:2 and Spiritual Experiences (Swedenborg 1998-2002) §3925 together indicate that "there" refers to an area above the head (heaven being in the form of a single human; see note 2 in §947) occupied by some unsavory spirits. [LHC]
