to each other as the highest part of man, or
his head, the middle part, or body, and the lowest, or feet; or as
the upper, the middle, and the lower stories of a house. In the same
order is the Divine that goes forth and descends from the Lord;
consequently heaven, from the necessity of order, is threefold.

30. The interiors of man, which belong to his mind and disposition,
are also in like order. He has an inmost, a middle, and an outmost
part; for when man was created all things of Divine order were
brought together in him, so that he became Divine order in form, and
consequently a heaven in miniature.{1} For this reason also man, as
regards his interiors, has communication with the heavens and comes
after death among the angels, either among those of the inmost, or of
the middle, or of the outmost heaven, in accordance with his
reception of Divine good and truth from the Lord during his life in
the world.

{Footnote 1} All things of Divine order are brought together in
man, and by creation man is Divine order in form (n. 3628,
4219, 4220, 4223, 4523, 4524, 5114, 5168, 6013, 6057, 6605,
6626, 9706, 10156, 10472). In man the internal man was formed
after the image of heaven, and the external after the image of
the world, and this is why man was called by the ancients a
microcosm (n. 3628, 4523, 5115, 6013, 6057, 9279, 9706, 10156,
10472). Thus man is respect to his interiors is by creation a
heaven in least form after the image of the greatest; and such
also man becomes when he has been created anew or regenerated
by the Lord (n. 911, 1900, 1928, 3624-3631, 3634, 3884, 4041,
4279, 4523, 4524, 4625, 6013, 6057, 9279, 9632).

31. The Divine that flows in from the Lord and is received in the
third or inmost heaven is called celestial, and in consequence the
angels there are called celestial angels; the Divine that flows in
from the Lord and is received in the second or middle heaven is
called spiritual, and in consequence the angels there are called
spiritual angels; while the Divine that flows in from the Lord and is
received in the outmost or first heaven is called natural; but as the
natural of that heaven is not like the natural of the world, but has
the spiritual and the celestial within it, that heaven is called the
spiritual-natural and the celestial-natural, and in consequence the
angels there are called spiritual-natural and celestial-natural.{1}
Those who receive influx from the