186. As to these correspondences I have also been told that not only
the palaces and houses, but all things and each thing, both inside
and outside of them, correspond to the interior things which they
have from the Lord, the house itself in general corresponding to
their good, the particular things inside of a house to the various
things of which their good consists,{1} and the things outside to
truths derived from good, and also to their perceptions and
knowledges {2} and as these things correspond to the goods and truths
they have from the Lord they correspond to their love, and to their
wisdom and intelligence from love, since love belongs to good, wisdom
to good and truth together, and intelligence to truth from good.
These are what the angels perceive when they behold what is around
them, and thus their minds are more delighted and moved by them than
their eyes.
{Footnote 1} "Houses," with their contents, signify the things
in man that belong to his mind, thus his interiors (n. 710,
2233, 2331, 2559, 3128, 3538, 4973, 5023, 6639, 6690, 7353,
7848, 7910, 7929, 9150); consequently the things relating to
good and truth (n.
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