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PHYSIOLOGICAL CORRESPONDENCES
by
JOHN WORCESTER ©1889
BOSTON: MASSACHUSETTS NEW-CHURCH UNION 1931
BRYN ATHYN: SWEDENBORG SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION 1987, ISBN
0-915221-64-0
From
text
scans at the University of Hawaii, November 2001
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
“THE states of spirits and angels, with all their varieties, can in no
wise be understood without a knowledge of the human body; for the Lord’s
kingdom is like a man.” (SE
1145½)
“That heaven as a whole is like one man is an Arcanum not yet
known in the world; but in heaven it is mostly certainly known. To know
that, and the specific and particular things concerning it, is the chief
of the intelligence of the angels there; very many things also depend upon
it, which without that as their general principle do not enter distinctly
and clearly into their minds.” (HH
59)
“The chief of the intelligence which angels have is to know and perceive
that all of life is from the Lord, and that the whole heaven corresponds
to His Divine Human, and consequently that all angels spirits, and men
correspond to heaven; also to know and perceive how they correspond. These
are the chief things of the intelligence in which angels are above men;
things which are in the heavens, and hence also those which are in the
world.” (AC
4318)
The correspondence of the whole heaven with the Divine Human, and of individual
men with the heavens, is the subject of these studies.
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