truth from the Lord.


8. Everyone in the heavens knows and believes and even perceives that
he wills and does nothing of good from himself, and that he thinks
and believes nothing of truth from himself, but only from the Divine,
thus from the Lord; also that good from himself is not good, and
truth from himself is not truth, because these have in them no life
from the Divine. Moreover, the angels of the inmost heaven clearly
perceive and feel the influx, and the more of it they receive the
more they seem to themselves to be in heaven, because the more are
they in love and faith and in the light of intelligence and wisdom,
and in heavenly joy therefrom; and since all these go forth from the
Divine of the Lord, and in these the angels have their heaven, it is
clear that it is the Divine of the Lord, and not the angels from
anything properly their own that makes heaven.{1} This is why heaven
is called in the Word the "dwelling-place" of the Lord and "His
throne," and those who are there are said to be in the Lord.{2} But
in what manner the Divine goes forth from the Lord and fills heaven
will be told in what follows.

{Footnote 1} The angels of heaven acknowledge all good to be
from the Lord, and nothing from themselves, and the Lord dwells
in them in His own and not in their own (n. 9338, 10125, 10151,
10157). Therefore in the Word by "angels" something of the Lord
is meant (n. 1925, 2821, 3039, 4085, 8192, 10528). Furthermore,
angels are called "gods" from the reception of the Divine from
the Lord (n. 4295, 4402, 7268, 7873, 8192, 8301). Again, all
good that is good, and all truth that is truth, consequently
all peace, love, charity, and faith, are from the Lord (n.