5546. About heaven from heaven

Those who are in the heavens live there just as they did on earth. Those who lived in separate groups, that is, divided into tribes, families, and households, as did the most ancients on our Earth, live the same there. Those who lived under monarchs and in cities live the same there, but still in the cities they are also divided by tribe, family, and household, thus by relationships in their order, ¹ although by relationships of truth coming from good, which are spiritual relationships. Those who are in such a relationship recognize themselves at first sight, entirely like relations by blood or marriage on earth. They are as it were acquainted with them although they had never seen them before.

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165. [165.] 31. I later saw a great number of people sent from the heavens and also rising up below and left to themselves who were allotted dwellings and habitations - in the east those who were possessed of a clear goodness of love and charity, to the west those who were possessed of a hazy goodness of love and charity, to the south those who were possessed of truths arising from good in a state of clarity, to the north those who were possessed of truths arising from good in a state of haziness - all acknowledging the Lord as God of heaven and earth.