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34 DIVINE LOVE and WISDOM §838485I include this example to make it clear that the two worlds, the spiritualone and the physical one, are so distinct from each other that theyhave nothing in common, and that still they have been created in such away that they communicate with each other and are actually unitedthrough their correspondences.Because these two worlds are so distinct from each other, it is quiteobvious that the spiritual world is under a different sun than is the physicalworld. There is just as much warmth and light in the spiritual worldas there is in the physical world, but the warmth there is spiritual and sois the light. Spiritual warmth is the good that thoughtfulness does andspiritual light is the truth that faith perceives.Now, since the only possible source of warmth and light is a sun, itstands to reason that there is a different sun in the spiritual world thanthere is in the physical world. It also stands to reason that because of theessential nature of the spiritual world’s sun, spiritual warmth and lightcan come forth from it, while because of the essential nature of the physicalworld’s sun, physical warmth [and light] can come forth from it. Theonly possible source of anything spiritual—that is, anything that has todo with what is good and true—is divine love and wisdom. Everythinggood is a result of love and everything true is a result of wisdom. Anywise individual can see that this is their only possible source.People have not realized before that there is another sun besides thesun of our physical world. This is because our spiritual nature has becomeso deeply involved in our physical nature that people do not knowwhat the word “spiritual” means. So they do not realize that there is aspiritual world other than and different from this physical one, a worldwhere angels and spirits live.Because that spiritual world has become so completely hidden frompeople in this physical world, the Lord has graciously opened the sight ofmy spirit so that I can see things in that world just the way I see things inthis physical world, and then provide descriptions of that spiritual world.This I have done in the book Heaven and Hell, which has a chapter onthe sun of the spiritual world. I have in fact seen it, and it seemed aboutthe same size as the sun of this physical world. It had a similar fiery look,but was more reddish. I was given to understand that the whole angelicheaven lies beneath this sun and that angels of the third heaven see itconstantly, angels of the second heaven often, and angels of the first ormost remote heaven occasionally.It will be made clear in what follows that all their warmth and alltheir light—everything people see in that world—comes from that sun.