ear paradises, gardens, forests, fruit trees of every kind, lawns, corn-fields, plains, replenished with flowers, herbs, and grasses of every kind, likewise the things derived from them, as oils, wines, all kinds of juices, and other things appertaining to the vegetable kingdom; there appear also animals of the earth, fowls of the heaven, fishes of the sea, reptiles, and these of every kind, and so much like those which are in our earth, that they cannot be distinguished; I have seen them, and could not perceive any distinction. But still there is this difference, that the things which appear in heaven are from a spiritual origin, but those which appear in our world are from a material origin; and the things which are from a spiritual origin affect the senses of the angels, inasmuch as they are spiritual, equally as those which are from a material origin affect the senses of men, inasmuch as they are material; for spiritual things are homogeneous with those which are spiritual, and material things with those which are material. It is said that they are from a spiritual origin, because they exist from the Divine (principle) which proceeds from the Lord as a sun, and the Divine (principle) which proceeds from the Lord as a sun is spiritual, for the sun there, is not fire, but is divine love, appearing before the eyes of the angels as the sun of the world before the eyes of men, and, whatsoever proceeds from divine love is divine, and is spiritual; what proceeds in common appears as light, and is felt as heat, but still that light is spiritual, and also the heat; for that light is divine wisdom, and is called divine truth, and that heat is divine love, and is called divine good; wherefore that light inwardly illustrates the understanding of the angels, and that heat inwardly fills the will of the angels with the good of love; from this origin are derived all things which exist in the heavens, and appear in forms similar to those which are in our world in its three kingdoms, according to what was said above: their appearing in such forms is from the order of creation, which is, that those things which are of wisdom and which are of love with the angels, whilst they descend into an inferior sphere, in which the angels are as to their bodies, and as to their sensations thereof, are presented in such forms and types; these forms and types are correspondences."
I would invite the reader's very careful attention to the latter part of the above quotation, in which the author refers to the laws by which external objects exist in the spiritual world. To the mind that is seeking for causes as well
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