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d. In the Word, length means what is good: 1613 , 9487. Breadth means what is true: 1613 , 3433 ,
3434 , 4482 , 9487 , 10179. Height means what is good and true in respect to their level: 9489 , 9773 ,
10181.
e. The Lord’s union and presence with angels depends on their acceptance of love and thought-
fulness from him: 290 , 681 , 1954 , 2658 , 2886 , 2888 , 2889 , 3001 , 3741 , 3742 , 3743 , 4318 , 4319 , 4524 ,
7211 , 9128.
We can see in David that breadth in the Word means truth:
Jehovah, you have not left me in the grasp of my enemy’s hand; you
have made my feet stand in a broad place. (Psalms 31 : 8 )I called on Jah from my constraint; he answered me in a broad place.
(Psalms 118 : 5 )There are other passages as well; for example, Isaiah 8 : 8 and Habakkuk
1 : 6. It also holds true elsewhere.
We can see from this that even though there is space in heaven as 198
there is in our world, nothing there is evaluated on the basis of space, but
only on the basis of state. Also spaces there cannot be measured the way
they can in our world, but only seen out of and in accordance with the
state of their deeper natures.d
The essential fi rst cause of all this is that the Lord is present to each (^199)
individual according to that individual’s love and faith,e and that every-
thing looks near or remote depending on his presence, since this is what
defi nes everything that exists in the heavens. This is what gives angels wis-
dom, since it provides them with an outreach of thoughts, which in turn
affords them communication with everyone in the heavens. In a word, this
is what enables them to think spiritually and not naturally, the way we do.
Heaven’s Form, Which Determines How People
Associate and Communicate There
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O some extent, we can determine what heaven’s form is like on the
basis of what has been presented in the preceding chapters—thatheaven has a basic similarity in its greatest and its smallest instances (§ 72 );