none in the second or first degree. This is what is meant by
the words of the Lord in Matthew:

He that is on the housetop, let him not go down to take
what is in his house; and he that is in the field, let him
not turn back to take his garment (24:17, 18).

And in Luke:

In that day he that shall be on the housetop and his goods
in the house, let him not go down to take them away; and
he that is in the field let him not turn back. Remember
Lot's wife (17:31, 32).

{Footnote 1} There is direct influx from the Lord and mediate
influx through heaven (n. 6063, 6307, 6472, 9682, 9683). There
is a direct influx of the Lord into the minutest parts of all
things (n. 6058, 6474-6478, 8717, 8728). Of the mediate influx
of the Lord through the heavens (n. 4067, 6982, 6985, 6996).

209. No influx is possible from the lower heavens into the higher,
because this is contrary to order; but there is influx from the
higher heavens into the lower. Moreover, the wisdom of the angels of
a higher heaven surpasses the wisdom of the angels of a lower heaven
as a myriad to one; and this is another reason why the angels of a
lower heaven cannot converse with those of a higher heaven; and in
fact when they look towards them they do not see them, the higher
heaven appearing like a cloudy something over their heads. But the
angels of a higher heaven can see those in a lower heaven, although
if permitted to talk with them they would lose their wisdom, as has
been said above.

210. The thoughts and affections as well as the speech of the angels
of the inmost heaven are never perceived in the middle heaven,
because they so transcend what is there. But when it pleases the Lord
there is seen in the lower heavens from that source something like a
flame, and from the thoughts and affections in the middle heaven
there is seen in the outmost heaven something luminous, and sometimes
a cloud glowing white and variegated. From that cloud, its ascent,
descent, and form, what is being said there is in some measure known.

211. From all this it can be seen what the form of heaven is, namely,
that it is the most perfect of all in the inmost heaven; in the
middle heaven it is also perfect, but in a lower degree, and in the
outmost heaven in a degree still lower; also that the form of one
heaven has its permanent existence from another by means of influx
from the Lord. But what communication by influx is c