things, and the things which man sees are respectively not real, because the former things live, and thereby immediately affect the life, whereas the latter things do not live, consequently neither do they affect the life unless so far, and in such a sort, as the things of this world's light conjoin themselves adequately and correspondentiy with the things of the light of Heaven."
I will add, in this connection, one more similar passage from the Apoc. Ex. No. 582. It occurs in the explanation of a passage in ch. 9 v. 19.
"From the horses thus seen by John in the vision, the nature and quality of representative appearances in heaven may be readily understood, namely, that affections there, when they are represented by animals, are exhibited to view in the forms of such animals as appear in our world, but still every where with variety as to their members, especially as to the countenance, the most minute particulars of which, by virtue of correspondence, signify various things of the affection thus represented; as, in the present case, that horses were seen, whose heads were as the heads of lions, and their tails like those of serpents, having heads, and that those who sat upon the horses, had breast-plates which were fiery, blue, and sulphureous. Animals continually appear in the spiritual world in various forms, and have also been frequently seen by me; and by the knowledge of correspondences, it is there known what they each signify: for all the affections which flow from angelic minds, are imaged before their eyes by animals of every kind which is on the earth, in the air and in the sea; likewise also by the subjects of all & things which are in the vegetable kingdom of the earth, and by the subjects of all things which are in the mineral kingdom of the earth; hence it is, that such things in our world were made representative of celestial and spiritual things. The reason why such representatives exist in the spiritual world, is, because in that world there are spiritual things interior and exterior; interior spiritual things are those that relate to affection, and to thought thence derived, or to the intelligenee of truth, and the wisdom of good; and exterior spiritual things are so created by the Lord, that they may: clothe or invest interior spiritual things, and when these are clothed and invested, there then exists such forms as are in the natural world, in which, therefore, interior spiritual things ultimately terminate, and in which they ultimately exist."
