types of this fact exist also in both kingdom's, the vegetable and the animal; in the vegetable from their resuscitation out of ashes, and in the animal from the metamorphosis of worms into chrysalises and butterflies. That an angelic mind cannot be procreated, and by procreations, multiplied, except in man. He who is acquainted with the quality of substances in the spiritual world, and with the respective quality of matters in the natural world, may easily see that there is not given any procreation of angelic minds, except in those and from those who inhabit the earth, the ultimate work of creation; but whereas it is unknown what the quality of substances in the spiritual world is in respect to matters in the natural world, it shall now be declared; substances in the spiritual world appear as if they were material, but still they are not so, and inasmach as they are not material, therefore they are not constant, being correspondences of the affections of the angels, and being permanent with the affections of the angels, and disappearing with them; similar would have been the case with the angels if they had been created there; but moreover with the angels there is not given, neither can be given, procreation and thence multiplication, except what is spiritual, which is that of wisdom and love, such also as is that of the souls of men who are generated anew or regenerated; but in the natural world there are matters, by which and from which procreations and afterwards formations can be effected, thus multiplications of men and thence of angels. That spirits and angels hence derive a capacity of subsisting and living for ever. The reason is, because an angel and a spirit, in consequence of being first born a man in the world, derives subsistence; for he derives from the inmost principles of nature a medium with himself between what is spiritual and what is natural, by which he is bounded to subsistence and permanence, having relation by the latter to those things which are in nature, and having also a principle corresponding to those things; hereby also spirits and angels can be adjoined and conjoined to the human race; for there is conjunction, and where conjunction is there must be also a medium; that there is such a medium, the angels know, but whereas it is from the inmost principles of nature, and the expressions of all languages are from its ultimates, it can only be described by things abstracted. From these considerations it now follows, that the angelic heaven, which was the end of creation, no otherwise existed, thus that the human race is its seminary and supply."
