324. The reality of this is something we have attested in many places in Arcana Coelestia (The Secrets of Heaven), and also in the book Heaven and Hell, and now here and there in the preceding pages where we have taken up correspondence. Moreover, we have shown in those places that there is nothing in the created universe that does not have a correspondence to some element in the human being, not only to his affections and consequent thoughts, but also to the organs and viscera of his body-not to them as substances, but to them as forms of useful endeavor. So it is that when the Word refers to the church and the person of the church, it so often speaks of trees, such as olives, vines, and cedars, and of gardens, groves, and forests, and so, too, of beasts of the earth, birds of the air, and fish of the sea. It speaks of these because they correspond, and, as we said, by correspondence accord. Consequently angels also do not perceive the things named, but instead of these the church or people of the church in their various states.