175. The difference between spiritual atmospheres and natural atmospheres is that spiritual atmospheres are vehicles of Divine fire and light, thus of love and wisdom, for they contain these within them, whereas natural atmospheres are not vehicles of Divine fire and light but are vehicles of the fire and light of their sun, a sun which in itself is, as we showed above, lifeless. Consequently natural atmospheres do not have in them anything from the sun of the spiritual world, although they are surrounded by spiritual atmospheres which originate from that sun. That this is the difference between spiritual atmospheres and natural atmospheres comes from angelic wisdom.