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and so in every house. Hence it is that the angels who are in similar good and truth, know each other like those related by consanguinity and affinity on earth, just as if they had been acquainted from infancy."—H. H, n. 205.

We are told, also, that there is a similarity of expression—a strong family likeness—among those of the same society; for the affections are there clearly revealed in the face, which is their representative image. No one in heaven has a face that does not correspond to and faithfully express his prevailing affections.

"All who belong to the same angelic society, resemble each other in general, but not in particular. . . . It is well known that every race of people have some general resemblance in the face and eyes, whereby they are known and distinguished from other races; and the distinction between families is still more marked. But it is more perfect in the heavens, because there all the interior affections appear and shine forth from the face, for the face in heaven is the external and representative form of those affections. No one in heaven is permitted to have a face that is not in correspondence with his affections."—Ibid. n. 47.

The reasonableness of all this is too obvious to need any argument. And these disclosures accord with the teachings of Scripture as well as with the intuitions of reason. The "many mansions" in the Father's house of which the Divine Saviour spake, clearly point to the many angelic societies resulting from the endless diversity of good and truth in heaven. Besides, the word translated heaven is usually found in the plural (heavens), both in the original Hebrew and Greek of the Bible— another circumstance indicative of the fact that there are