106. In a word, all things that have existence in nature, from the
least to the greatest thereof, are correspondences.{1} They are
correspondences because the natural world with all things in it
springs forth and subsists from the spiritual world, and both worlds
from the Divine. They are said to subsist also, because everything
subsists from that from which it springs forth, subsistence being a
permanent springing forth; also because nothing can subsist from
itself, but only from that which is prior to itself, thus from a
First, and if separated from that it would utterly perish and vanish.
{Footnote 1} All things that are in the world and its three
kingdoms correspond to the heavenly things that are in heaven,
that is, the things in the natural world correspond to the
things in the spiritual world (n. 1632, 1881, 2758, 2760-2763,
2987-3003, 3213-3227, 3483, 3624-3649, 4044, 4053, 4116, 4366,
4939, 5116, 5377, 5428, 5477, 9280). By correspondences the
natural world is conjoined to the spiritual world (n. 8615).
For this reason all nature is a theatre representative of the
Lord's kingdom (n. 2758, 2999, 3000, 3483, 4938, 4939, 8848,
9280).
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