him, and therefore he has no conjunction with the Lord; for he is not in truth, and as truth makes one with the light of heaven, so far he cannot be in heaven; for he thereby denies that he lives from the Lord, and believes that he lives from himself, and that he therefore possesses Divine essence.  In these two, freedom and rationality, the life which is called angelic and human consists.  From all this it can be seen that for the sake of conjunction with the Lord, — the angel has the ability to reciprocate, but that this ability, in itself considered, is not his but the Lord’s.  From this it is, that if he abuses his ability to reciprocate, by which he perceives and feels as his what is the Lord’s, which is done by appropriating it to himself he falls from the angelic state.  That conjunction is reciprocal, the Lord Himself teaches (John 14:20-24; 154-6); also that the conjunction of the Lord with man and of man with the Lord, is in those things of the Lord that are called His words (John 15:7).

117.  Some are of the opinion that Adam was in such liberty or freedom of choice as to be able to love God and be wise from himself, and that this freedom of choice was lost in his posterity.  But this is an error; for man is not life, but is a recipient of life (see above, n. 4-6, 54-60); and he who is a recipient of life cannot love and be wise from anything of his own; consequently, when Adam willed to be wise and to love from what was his own he fell from wisdom and love, and was cast out of Paradise.

118.  What has just been said of an angel is likewise true of heaven, which consists of angels, since the Divine in greatest and least things is the same (as was shown above n. 77-82).  What is said of an angel and of heaven is likewise true of man and the church, for the angel of heaven and the man of the church act as one through conjunction; in fact, a man of the church is an angel, in respect to the interiors which are of his mind.  By a man of the church is meant a man in whom the church is.

119.  In the spiritual world the east is where the lord appears as A sun, and from that the other quarters are determined.

The sun of the spiritual world and its essence, also its heat and light, and the presence of the Lord thereby, have been treated of; a description is now to be given of the quarters in the spiritual world.  That sun and that world are treated of, because God and love and wisdom are treated of; and to treat of those subjects except from their very origin would be to proceed from effects, not from causes.  Yet from effects nothing but effects can be learned; when effects alone are considered no cause is brought to light; but causes reveal effects.  To know effects from causes is to be wise; but to search for causes from effects is not to be wise, because fallacies then present themselves,