Correspondence.
There is a fixed relation that always exists between end, cause, and effect, or between internals and their ultimates. Kindly affection clothes itself in kindly thought, and kindly thought results in kindly act. Hatred clothes itself in hostile thought, and hostile thought terminates in unkind act. Inward joy produces the outward smile. Grief has its ultimate in weeping. When internal things flow forth into ultimates, they never violate this law of relation. An expression of agony upon the face is a sure sign of inward pain. No one in all the world would ever mistake an enraged countenance for an expression of inward love. When internals flow into externals they produce there with absolute accuracy a representation of themselves. This is from the law of Correspondence. That law of relation between internals and their ultimates; that law according to which affections clothe themselves with thoughts, and thoughts with acts; that law by which ends pass by causes to effects, whereby there is produced in ultimates a representation of things interior, is the law of Correspondence. End, cause, and effect are always related according to the law of Correspondence. Correspondence is the appearance of
