120. We must now say something here about zones in the spiritual world. There are zones in the spiritual world just as in the natural world, but the zones in the spiritual world are-like that world itself-spiritual, while the zones in the natural world are-like that world-natural. Consequently the zones are so different as to have nothing in common. There are four points of the compass in each world, called east, west, south and north. These four points in the natural world are constant, being determined in relation to the sun at its zenith in the south. Opposite to this is the north, with the east on one side and the west on the other. These directions are everywhere determined in relation to the south, for the position of the sun at its zenith in the south is everywhere the same and thus provides a fixed point of reference. Not so in the spiritual world. There the points of the compass are determined in relation to its sun which appears constantly in the same place, and where it appears is the east. Consequently the determination of these points in that world is made, not as in the natural world in relation to the south, but in relation to the east. Opposite to that is the west, with the south on one side and the north on the other. Nevertheless, the resulting zones are not created by the sun there, but by the inhabitants of that world, who are angels and spirits, as we will see in the discussion following this.