what follows, particulars are here omitted.



29. V. THERE ARE THREE HEAVENS.

There are three heavens, entirely distinct from each other, an inmost
or third, a middle or second, and an outmost or first. These have a
like order and relation to each other as the highest part of man, or
his head, the middle part, or body, and the lowest, or feet; or as
the upper, the middle, and the lower stories of a house. In the same
order is the Divine that goes forth and descends from the Lord;
consequently heaven, from the necessity of order, is threefold.


30. The interiors of man, which belong to his mind and disposition,
are also in like order. He has an inmost, a middle, and an outmost
part; for when man was created all things of Divine order were
brought together in him, so that he became Divine order in form, and
consequently a heaven in miniature.{1} For this reason also man, as
regards his interiors, has communication with the heavens and comes
after death among the angels, either among those of the inmost, or of
the middle, or of the outmost heaven, in accordance with his
reception of Divine good and truth from the Lord during his life in
the world.

{Footnote 1} All things of Divine order are brought together in
man, and by creation man is Divine order in form (n. 3628,
4219, 4220, 4223, 4523, 4524, 5114, 5168, 6013, 6057, 6605,
6626, 9706, 10156, 10472). In man the internal man was formed