On the other hand, those that are not in intelligence
and wisdom, because they are in falsities from evil, have
communication with societies in hell; and their extension is
determined by the degree of their confirmation. Let it also be known
that this communication with societies is not such a communication
with them as is clearly perceptible to those there, but is a
communication with what they really are, which is in them and flows
from them.{1}
{Footnote 1} Thought pours itself into societies of spirits and
of angels round about (n. 6600-6605). Still it does not move or
disturb the thoughts of the societies (n. 6601, 6603).
205. There is an affiliation of all in heaven in accordance with
spiritual relationships, that is, relationships of good and truth in
their order. It is so in the whole heaven; so in each society, and so
in each house. Because of this angels who are in like good and truth
recognize each other, as relatives by blood and marriage do on the
earth, precisely as if they had been acquainted from infancy. The
good and truth in each angel, which constitute his wisdom and
intelligence, are affiliated in like manner; they recognize each
other in like manner, and as they recognize each other they join
themselves together;{1} and in consequence those in whom truths and
goods are thus joined in accordance with a form of heaven see things
following one another in series, and how they cohere widely round
about; but those in whom goods and truths are not conjoined in
accordance with the form of heaven do not see this.
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