Heaven and Hell - Swedenborg Foundation

HEAVEN AND HELL 45
common with an angel and what he has in contrast with angels
may be mentioned. It is granted to man, equally with the
angel, to have his interiors conformed to the image of heaven,
and to become, so far as he is in the good of love and faith, an
image of heaven. But it is granted to man and not to angels to
have his exteriors conform to the image of the world; and so far
as he is in good to have the world in him subordinated to
heaven and made to serve heaven. 57
And then the Lord is
present in him both in the world and in heaven just as if he
were in his heaven. For the Lord is in his Divine order in both
worlds, since God is order. 58
58. Finally it should be said that he who has heaven in
himself has it not only in the largest or most general things
pertaining to him but also in every least or particular thing,
and that these least things repeat in an image the greatest. This
comes from the fact that everyone is his own love, and is such
as his ruling love is. That which reigns flows into the
particulars and arranges them, and everywhere induces a
things of heaven (n. 911, 1900, 1928, 3624–3631, 3634, 3884, 4041, 4279,
4523, 4524, 4625, 6013, 6057, 9279, 9632).
57. Man has an internal and an external; his internal is formed by
creation after the image of heaven, and his external after the image of the
world; and for this reason man was called by the ancients a microcosm (n.
3628, 4523, 4524, 5115, 5368, 6013, 6057, 9279, 9706, 10156, 10472).
Therefore man was created to have the world in him serve heaven, and this
takes place with the good; but it is the reverse with the evil, in whom heaven
serves the world (n. 9278, 9283).
58. The Lord is order, since the Divine good and truth that go forth
from the Lord make order (n. 1728, 1919, 2011, 2258, 5110, 5703, 8988,
10336, 10619).
Divine truths are laws of order (n. 2447, 7995).
So far as a man lives according to order, that is, so far as he lives in good
in accordance with Divine truths, he is a man, and the church and heaven are
in him (n. 4839, 6605, 8513, [8547]).