Heaven and Hell - Swedenborg Foundation

HEAVEN AND HELL 152
204. But let it be understood that intelligence and wisdom
vary with everyone in accordance with this communication,
those whose intelligence and wisdom are formed out of
genuine truths and goods having communication with societies
in accordance with the form of heaven; while those whose
intelligence and wisdom are not formed out of genuine truths
and goods, and yet out of what is in accord therewith, have a
broken and variously coherent communication, since it is not
with societies that are in a series in which there is a form of
heaven. On the other hand, those that are not in intelligence
and wisdom, because they are in falsities from evil, have
communication with societies in hell; and their extension is
determined by the degree of their confirmation. Let it also be
known that this communication with societies is not such a
communication with them as is clearly perceptible to those
there, but is a communication with what they really are, which
is in them and flows from them. 151
205. There is an affiliation of all in heaven in accordance
with spiritual relationships, that is, relationships of good and
truth in their order. It is so in the whole heaven; so in each
society, and so in each house. Because of this angels who are in
like good and truth recognize each other, as relatives by blood
and marriage do on the earth, precisely as if they had been
acquainted from infancy. The good and truth in each angel,
Of the joy of angels, perceived and confirmed by what they told me,
because of their not living from themselves but from the Lord (n. 6469).
The evil are unwilling to be convinced that life flows in (n. 3743).
Life from the Lord flows in also with the evil (n. 2706, 3743, 4417,
10196).
But they turn good into evil, and truth into falsity; for such as man is
such is his reception of life, illustrated (n. 4319, 4320, 4417).
151. Thought pours itself into societies of spirits and of angels round
about (n. 6600–6605).
Still it does not move or disturb the thoughts of the societies (n. 6601,
6603).