121. Since these quarters from their very origin, which is the Lord as a Sun, are spiritual, so the dwelling-places of angels and spirits, all of which are according to these quarters, are also spiritual. They are spiritual because angels and spirits have their dwelling-places in accordance with their reception of love and wisdom from the Lord. Those who are in a higher degree of love dwell in the east; those in a lower degree of love in the west; those in a higher degree of wisdom in the south, and those in a lower degree of wisdom, in the north. Hence it is that, in the Word, by "the east" in the highest sense, is understood the Lord, and in a relative sense, love to Him; by "the west" a decreasing love to Him, by "the south", wisdom in light, and by "the north" wisdom in shade, or similar things relatively to the state of those treated of.