they do not receive,
still less do they become imbued with, anything that disagrees with
it; for spirits are affections, and are in a human form like their
affections. Being such, they have inspired in them continually an
affection for truth for the sake of the uses of life; for the Lord
provides that every one may love the uses which suit his genius, a
love that is exalted, too, by the hope of becoming an angel.... With
every one, therefore, the affection of truth is united to the
affection of use, so fully that they act as one. Thereby truth is
planted in service, so much so that the truths which angelic spirits
learn, are truths of use. Thus are they instructed and prepared for
heaven.

--_Heaven and Hell, nn._ 512, 517

HEAVEN

"Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may
have right to the tree of life; and may enter in through the
gates into the city."

--_Rev_., XXII, 14

"Thou wilt show me the path of life; In Thy presence is
fulness of joy; At Thy right hand there are pleasures
forevermore."

--_Psalm_, XVI, 11

"THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU"

Heaven is in a man; and they who have heaven within themselves, come
into heaven. Heaven in a man is to acknowledge the Divine, and to be
led by the Divine.

Every angel receives the heaven which is around him according to the
heaven which is within him. Unless heaven is within a man, none of the
heaven around him flows in and is received.

Love to the Lord is the love regnant in the heavens; for there the
Lord is loved above all things. Thus the Lord is All in all there. He
flows into all the angels, and into each of them. He disposes them; He
induces a likeness of Himself on them, and causes Heaven to be where
He is. Hence an angel is heaven in the least form; a society is heaven
in a greater form; and all the societies together are heaven in the
greatest form.

--_Heaven and Hell, nn._ 319, 54, 58

AN ACTUAL WORLD

In general, what appears in heaven, appears the same as it does in our
material world of three kingdoms. Things appear before the eyes of
angels just as objects of the three kingdoms do before the eyes of
men in the world. Still there is this difference: the things which
appear in heaven, have a spiritual origin, and those which appear in
our world a material origin. Objects of a spiritual origin