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k. There is a spiritual infl ow and not a physical one, so the infl ow is from the spiritual world into
the natural and not from the natural into the spiritual: 3219 , 5119 , 5259 , 5427 , 5428 , 5477 , 6322 ,
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heating up, burning, boiling, and kindling when we are talking about
either the affections of a good love or the cravings of an evil love.
The reason the love that emanates from the Lord as the sun is experi- 135
enced as warmth in heaven is that the deeper levels of angels are involved
in a love that comes from the divine good, which in turn comes from the
Lord. Consequently, their more outward levels, which are warmed by this,
are in warmth. This is why warmth and love are mutually responsive to
each other in heaven, so that everyone is in the kind of warmth that accords
with her or his love, as follows from what we have just been saying.
Our world’s warmth does not enter heaven at all, because it is too
crude, being natural and not spiritual. It is different for us, though, since
we are in the spiritual world as well as in the natural world. As far as our
spirits are concerned, we grow warm exactly according to our loves, but
as far as our bodies are concerned, we respond to both—the warmth of
our spirits and the warmth of the world. The former fl ows into the latter,
because they correspond.
We can determine the nature of the correspondence of these two
kinds of warmth by looking at animals, whose loves—the primary one
being for the procreation of offspring of their own species—break forth
and become active in response to the presence and touch of warmth
from our world’s sun, a warmth that comes primarily in spring and
summertime.
People who believe that the infl ow of our world’s warmth arouses
these loves are much mistaken. There is actually no infl ow of what is
natural into what is spiritual, but of what is spiritual into what is natural.
This latter infl ow is of the divine design, while the former would be con-
trary to the divine design.k
Like people on earth, angels have discernment and volition. Heaven’s 136
light produces their cognitive life because heaven’s light is divine truth
and the divine wisdom that comes from it; while heaven’s warmth pro-
duces their volitional life because heaven’s warmth is the divine good and
the divine love that comes from it. The quintessential life of angels is
from the warmth, but not from the light except to the extent that there is
warmth in it. We can see that life comes from the warmth because when
the warmth is taken away life dies. It is the same for faith without love or