Again: 

     I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth on
     Me, though he die yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth
     and believeth on Me shall never die (John 11:26, 26).

And again: 

     I am the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6).

{Footnote 1} The entire heaven is the Lord’s (n. 2751, 7086).  He has all power in the heavens and on the earths (n. 1607, 10089, 10827).  As the Lord rules heaven He rules also all things that depend thereon, thus all things in the world (n. 2026, 2027, 4523, 4524).  The Lord alone has power to remove the hells, to withhold from evil and hold in good, and thus to save (n. 10019).

6.  There were certain spirits who while living in the world had professed to believe in the Father; but of the Lord they had the same idea as of any other man, and therefore did not believe Him to be the God of heaven.  For this reason they were permitted to wander about and inquire wherever they wished whether there were any other heaven than the heaven of the Lord.  They searched for several days, but nowhere found any.  These were such as place the happiness of heaven in glory and dominion; and as they were unable to get what they desired, and were told that heaven does not consist in such things, they became indignant, and wished for a heaven where they could lord it over others and be eminent in glory like that in the world.

7.  II.  It is the divine of the lord that makes heaven.

The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them.  And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.

8.  Everyone in the heavens knows and believes and even perceives that he wills and does nothing of good from himself, and that he thinks and believes nothing of truth from himself, but only from the Divine, thus from the Lord; also that good from himself is not good, and truth from himself is not truth, because these have in them no life from the Divine.  Moreover, the angels of the inmost heaven clearly perceive and feel the influx, and the more of it they receive the more they seem to themselves to be in heaven, because the more are they in love and faith and in the light of intelligence and wisdom, and in heavenly joy therefrom; and since all these go forth from the Divine of the Lord, and in these the angels have their heaven, it is clear that it is the Divine of the Lord, and not the angels from anything properly their own that makes heaven.{1} This is why heaven is called in the Word the “dwelling-place” of the Lord and “His throne,” and those who are there are said to be in the Lord.{2} But in what manner the Divine goes forth from the Lord and fills heaven will be told in what follows.