joined together; this conjunction is also represented in the conjunction of the heart and lungs in man, and in the conjunction of their operations in each of the members and viscera. When man is an embryo, or yet in the womb, he is in the kingdom of the heart; but when he has issued forth from the womb, he at the same time comes into the kingdom of the lungs; and if he suffers himself to be brought by the truths of faith into the good of love, he returns from the kingdom of the lungs into the kingdom of the heart in the GRAND MAN, for thereby he again comes into the womb and is reborn. Then also those two kingdoms are conjoined in him, but in an inverted order, for heretofore the kingdom of the heart was under the government of the lungs in him, that is, the truth of faith heretofore had dominion with him; but afterwards the good of charity bears rule. The heart corresponds to the good of love, and the lungs to the truth of faith. (See Nos. 3635, 3883 to 3896.)

4932. Those in the GRAND MAN who correspond to the hands and arms, and also to the shoulders, are they who are in power by the truth of faith grounded in good; for they who are in this truth, are in the Lord's power, as they attribute all power to Him, and none to themselves; and the more they attribute none to themselves (not with the mouth, but with the heart), so much the greater power are they in; hence the angels are called abilities and powers.

4934. There has been seen by me a naked arm, bent forward, which had with it so great a force, and at the same time so great terror, that I not only was struck with horror, but seemed as if I might be bruised into an atom, even as to inmost principles.

4936. Occasionally spirits have appeared who had staffs, and it was said that they were magicians. They are in front, to the right, a long way immersed in deep caverns; those who have been more mischievous magicians are there immersed at a greater depth. They seem to themselves to have staffs, and also by phantasies they form several kinds of staffs, and believe that by them they can do miracles; for they suppose energy to be in the staff, and this because staffs are for the support of

the right hand and arm, which by correspondence are strength and power. Hence it was evident to me, why of old they attributed staffs to magicians; for the old Gentiles had it from the ancient representative Church, in which staffs, as well as hands, signified power. (See No. 4876.) And in consequence of this signification, Moses was commanded, when miracles were wrought, to stretch out the staff or hand.

4937. Infernal spirits also sometimes present a shoulder from phantasy, the effect of which is a repercussion of forces, yet they cannot pass over; but this is only for those who are in such phantasy, for they know that the shoulder corresponds to all power in the spiritual world. By shoulder, also, in the Word, is signified all power, as is evident from many passages therein.

4938. They in the GRAND MAN, who correspond to the feet, the soles of the feet, and the heels, are such as are natural; wherefore by feet, in the Word, are signified natural things (see Nos. 2162, 3147, 3761, 3986, 4280); by the soles of the feet, inferior natural things; and by the heels, the lowest natural things. For in the GRAND MAN celestial things constitute the head, spiritual things the body, and natural things the feet; they also follow in this order: Celestial things, likewise, which are the supreme, terminate in spiritual things, which are the middle; and spiritual things terminate in natural things, which are the last. The celestial principle, which is the good of love and the first principle in order; flows into the spiritual, which is truth thence derived, and is the second of order, and finally into the natural, which is the third of order; hence it is manifest, that natural things are like the feet, upon which superior things stand and are supported. In nature, also, the things of the spiritual world and of heaven terminate; hence it is that universal nature is a theatre representative of the Lord's kingdom, and that each single thing of nature represents (see Nos. 2758, 3483); and that nature subsists from influx, according to the above order, and that without such influx it could not subsist even a single moment. 4940. On another occasion, when, being encompassed with an angelic column, I was let down into the places of lower

things, it was given me to perceive sensibly that they who were in the earth of lower things corresponded to the feet and to the soles of the feet; those places also are beneath the feet and the soles of the feet. I likewise discoursed with the spirits there; they are such as have been in natural delight, and not in spiritual, concerning the inferior earth. (See No. 4728.)

4944. They who come from the Christian world, and have led a moral life, and had somewhat of charity towards the neighbour, but have had little concern about spiritual things, are for the most part sent into the places beneath the feet and the soles of the feet, where they are kept until they put off the natural things in which they have been principled, and are tinctured with spiritual and celestial things as far as they are able; when this is effected, they are elevated thence to heavenly societies. I have seen them at times emerging, and was witness to their joy at coming into heavenly light.

4945. In what situation the places beneath the feet are, it has not as yet been given me to know; they are very many, and most distinct one amongst another; in general they are called the earth of lower things.

4947. Beneath the soles of the feet also are they who, in the life of the body, have lived to the world and to their own particular taste and temper, delighted with such things as are of the world, and who have loved to live in splendour, but only from external cupidity, on that of the body, not from internal, or that of the mind; for they have not been proud in mind, in preferring themselves to others, although advanced to dignities; thus, in so living, they have acted from the bodily principles; wherefore such have not rejected the doctrinals of the Church, still less have they confirmed themselves against them; in their heart they have said concerning them, that it is so, because they who study the Word know it to be so.

With some of this character, the interiors are open towards heaven, into which interiors are successively inseminated heavenly things-viz., justice, probity, piety, charity, mercy; and they are afterwards elevated into heaven.

4948. But they who, in the life of the body, have thought and studied nothing from their interior principle, except what relates to self and the world, have closed every way or every influx out of heaven to themselves, for self-love and the love of the world is the opposite to heavenly love. Of these, they who have lived at the same time in pleasure, or in a delicate life conjoined with interior cunning, are under the sole of the right foot, but at a considerable depth there, thus beneath the earth of lower things, where the hell of such is; several, who in the world have been of distinguished celebrity, have their abode there.

4950. Beneath the left foot, a little to the left, are such as have attributed all things to nature, yet still have confessed an Ens of the universe from which come all the things of nature; but exploration was made whether they believed in any Ens of the universe, or highest Deity, as having created all things, but it was perceived from their thought communicated with me, that what they believed in was something inanimate, in which there was nothing of life; whereby it might be evident that they did not acknowledge the Creator of the Universe, but nature; they said also that they could not have an idea of a living Deity.

4951. Beneath the heel, somewhat more backwards, is a hell at a great depth; in this hell are the most malicious; they clandestinely explore minds [animos] with a view to hurt, and lay snares with a view to destroy; this had been the delight of their life. I frequently observed them; they pour out the poison of their malice to those who are in the world of spirits, and stir them up by various stratagems; they are interiorly malicious; they appear as it were in cloaks, and sometimes otherwise; they are often punished, and are then let down to a greater depth, and are veiled as it were with a cloud, which is the sphere of malice exhaling from them; out of that depth at times a tumult is heard as of a general carnage. They can induce others to weep, and can also strike terror; they have become tinctured with this habit in the life of the body in consequence of being with the sick and simple (for the sake of obtaining wealth), whom they

have constrained to weep, and thereby have moved to pity; and if they have not obtained their ends in this way, they have proceeded to strike terror. There are several of this description, who in this manner have plundered several houses. Some were also observed in a middle distance, but these appear to themselves to sit as in a chamber, and to consultthey are also malicious, but not in the above degree.

4952. Some of those who are naturals, have said that they know not what they should believe, because a lot awaits everyone according to his life, and also according to his thoughts from confirmed principles; but reply was made them, that it was sufficient for them if they believed that it is God who governs all things, and that there is a life after death; and especially if they lived not as a wild beast, but as a man-viz., in love to God, and in charity towards their neighbour, thus in truth and in good, but not contrary thereto. But they said that they did so live; but reply was again made, that in externals they appeared to do so, when, nevertheless, had not the laws opposed them, they would have invaded every one's life and property with more fury than wild beasts. They again said that they did not know what charity towards their neighbour was, nor what an internal principle; but reply was made them, that they could not know these things, because self-love, and the love of the world and external things, had occupied the whole of their thought and will.

ON CAUSE AND EFFECT.

5711. Being about to treat on the correspondence of diseases, it may be expedient to observe that all diseases appertaining to man have correspondence with the spiritual world; for whatever in the whole of nature has not correspondence with the spiritual world, has no existence, having no cause from which it can exist, consequently from which it can subsist. The things which are in nature, are mere effects, their causes are in the spiritual world, and the causes of those causes, which are ends, are in the interior heaven. An effect