1276. In regard to spirits' position in the world of spirits and angels' position in heaven: Angels are on the Lord's right, evil spirits on his left. In front of him live people of a middling sort, at his back live the malicious. Overhead are the vain and ambitious, underfoot are hells that provide a counterpart to them. So all individuals have their own position relative to the Lord, in every quarter, at every height, on the horizontal plane and the vertical and at every angle in between. Everyone's place remains fixed, never changing to eternity. ¹

[2] The heavens in the other world make up what is essentially a single human being, which is therefore called the universal human, and everything in us corresponds to [something in] that human. The correspondence will be discussed later, with the Lord's divine mercy. ²

As a result, everything positions itself in a similar way around every angel and within every person on earth to whom the Lord opens heaven. The Lord's presence carries this consequence with it. It would not be so if the Lord were not omnipresent in heaven.

Footnotes:

3883. The Universal Human and Correspondence (Continued):

Correspondence with the Heart and Lungs

THE universal human and correspondence with it have already been defined. The universal human is the whole of heaven, which is a composite likeness and image of the Lord. The Lord’s divine nature corresponds to the heavenly and spiritual attributes there, which correspond to earthly entities in the world, particularly those belonging to a human being. Through heaven or the universal human, then, the Lord’s divine nature corresponds with a human being and with all the parts that make up a human being — so much so that we spring from (in other words, are sustained by) this correspondence.