Divine Love and Wisdom (Rogers) n. 377

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377. Since we take up in the discussions that follow next a consideration of the correspondence of the heart and lungs with the will and intellect, and on it rests the correspondence of all the body's constituents, which are called in respect to the whole its members, in respect to the senses its organs, and in respect to the body its viscera; and since the correspondence of natural phenomena with spiritual ones has been previously unknown, and yet has been amply shown in two works, one of them dealing with Heaven and Hell, and the other with the spiritual sense of the Word in Genesis and Exodus, titled Arcana Coelestia (The Secrets of Heaven), I would like to indicate here what we wrote and showed in those two works regarding correspondence. In the book Heaven and Hell: The correspondence of all the constituents of heaven with all the constituents of the human being, nos. 87-102. The correspondence of all the constituents of heaven with all the constituents of the world, nos. 103-115. In the work on the spiritual sense of the Word in Genesis and Exodus, titled Arcana Coelestia (The Secrets of Heaven): The correspondence of the face and its expressions with the affections of the mind, nos. 1568, 2988, 2989, 3631, 4796, 4797, 4880, 5165, 5168, 5695, 9306. The correspondence of the body as regards its gestures and actions with constituents of the intellect and will, nos. 2988, 3632, 4215. The correspondence of the senses in general, nos. 4318-4330. The correspondence of the eyes and their sight, nos. 4403-4420. The correspondence of the nose and smell, nos. 4624-4633. The correspondence of the ears and hearing, nos. 4652-4659. The correspondence of the tongue and taste, nos. 4791-4805. The correspondence of the hands, arms, shoulders, and feet, nos. 4931-4952. The correspondence of the loins and reproductive organs, nos. 5050-5061. The correspondence of the internal organs of the body, in particular of the stomach, thymus, cisterna chyli and chyle ducts, and mesentery, nos. 5171-5181. The correspondence of the spleen, no. 9698. The correspondence of the peritoneum, kidneys and bladder, nos. 5377-5390. The correspondence of the liver and the hepatic, cystic and pancreatic ducts, nos. 5183-5185. The correspondence of the intestines, nos. 5392-5395, 5379. The correspondence of the bones, nos. 5560-5564. The correspondence of the skin, nos. 5552-5559. The correspondence of heaven with the human being, nos. 911, 1900, 1928, 2996, 2998, 3624-3648, 3741-3745, 3884, 4041, 4279, 4523-4525, 6013, 6057, 9279, 9632. That all the phenomena found in the natural world and its three kingdoms correspond to phenomena appearing in the spiritual world, nos. 1632, 1881, 2758, 2760-2763,* 2987-3002, 3213-3226, 3483, 3624-3648, 4044, 4053, 4116,** 4366, 4939, 5116, 5377, 5428, 5477, 8211, 9280. That all the phenomena appearing in the heavens are correspondent forms, nos. 1521, 1532, 1619-1625, 1807, 1808, 1971, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1981, 2299, 2601, 3213-3226, 3348, 3350, 3475, 3485, 3748, 9481, 9570, 9576, 9577. The latter work deals throughout with the correspondence of the literal meaning of the Word and its spiritual meaning, on which subject see also The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, nos. 5-26, 27-69. * The reading 2760-2763 is uncertain. The first edition reads 2890 to 2893, but in error, it seems. The intended reading may be 2990 to 2993, but in that case the reference ought to be omitted, as it is followed by what is almost certainly a reference to nos. 2987 to 3002, which includes those numbers. ** The reading 4116 is uncertain. The first edition reads 4156, but in error, it seems.


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