Out of straitness I called upon Jah; He answereth me in a
broad place (Psalm 118:5). Besides other passages (as in
Isaiah 8:8; and in Habakkuk 1:6). So in all other cases.

198. From all this it can be seen that although there are spaces in
heaven as in the world, still nothing there is reckoned in accordance
with spaces but in accordance with states; and in consequence spaces
there cannot be measured as in the world, but can be seen only from
the state and in accordance with the state of the interiors there.{1}

{Footnote 1} In the Word length signifies good (n. 1613, 9487).
"Breadth" signifies truth (n. 1613, 3433, 3434, 4482, 9487,
10179). Height signifies good and truth in respect to their
degrees (n. 9489, 9773, 10181).

199. The primary and veriest cause of this is that the Lord is
present with everyone in the measure of his love and faith,{1} and
that it is in accordance with the Lord's presence that all things
appear near or far away, for it is from this that all things in the
heavens are determined. Also it is through this that angels have
wisdom, for it is through this that they have extension of thought
and through this a sharing of all things in the heavens; in a word,
it is through this that they think spiritually, and not naturally
like men.

{Footnote 1} The conjunction and presence of the Lord with the
angels is according to their reception of love and charity from
Him (n. 290, 681, 1954, 2658, 2886, 2888, 2889, 3001,
3741-3743, 4318 4319, 4524, 7211, 9128).

200. XXIII. THE FORM OF HEAVEN WHICH DETERMINES AFFILIATIONS AND
COMMUNICATIONS THERE.

What the form of heaven is can be seen in some measure from what has
been shown in the preceding chapters; as that heaven is like itself
both in its greatest and in its least divisions (n. 72); that
consequently each society is a heaven in a lesser form, and each
angel in the least form (n. 51-58); that as the entire heaven
reflects a single man, so each society of heaven reflects a man in a
lesser form, and each angel in the least form (n. 59-77); that the
wisest are at the center, and the less wise are round about even to
the borders, and the like is true of each society (n. 43); and that
those who are in the good of love dwell from the east to the west in
heaven, and those who are in truths from good from the south to the
north; and the same is true of each society (n. 148, 149). All this
is in accord with the fo