111.  That this is so can hardly be comprehended by a natural idea, because in such there is space, but by a spiritual idea, such as angels have, it can be comprehended, because in such there is no space.  Yet even by a natural idea this much can be comprehended, that love and wisdom (or what is the same, the Lord, who is Divine Love and Divine Wisdom) cannot advance through spaces, but is present with each one according to reception.  That the Lord is present with all, He teaches in Matthew (28:20), and that He makes His abode with those who love Him, in John (14:23).

112.  As this has been proved by means of the heavens and the angels, it may seem a matter of too exalted wisdom; but the same is true of men.  Men, as to the interiors of their minds, are warmed and illuminated by that same sun.  They are warmed by its heat and illuminated by its light in the measure in which they receive love and wisdom from the Lord.  The difference between angels and men is that angels are under the spiritual sun only, but men are not only under that sun, but also under the sun of this world; for men’s bodies can begin and continue to exist only under both suns; but not so the bodies of angels, which are spiritual.

113.  Angels are in the lord, and the lord in them; and because angels are recipients, the lord alone is heaven.

Heaven is called “the dwelling-place of God,” also “the throne of God,” and from this it is believed that God is there as is a king in his kingdom.  But God (that is, the Lord) is in the sun above the heavens, and by His presence in heat and light, is in the heavens (as is shown in the last two paragraphs).  But although the Lord is present in heaven in that manner, still He is there as He is in Himself.  For (as shown just above, n. 108-112) the distance between the sun and heaven is not distance, but appearance of distance; and since that distance is only an appearance it follows that the Lord Himself is in heaven, for He is in the love and wisdom of the angels of heaven; and since He is in the love and wisdom of all angels, and the angel constitute heaven, He is in the whole heaven.

114.  The Lord not only is in heaven, but also is heaven itself; for love and wisdom are what make the angel, and these two are the Lord’s in the angels; from which it follows that the Lord is heaven.  For angels are not angels from what is their own; what is their own is altogether like what is man’s own, which is evil.  An angel’s own is such because all angels were once men, and this own clings to the angels from their birth.  It is only put aside, and so far as it is put aside the angels receive love and wisdom, that is, the Lord, in themselves.  Any one, if he will only elevate his understanding a little, can see that the Lord can dwell in angels, only in what is His, that is, in what is His very own,