389. The atmospheres of procreating and of protecting what has been procreated, or the atmospheres of conjugial love and of a love for little children, flow into all things of heaven and into all things of the world, from the firsts to the lasts of them, because whatever emanates from the Lord, or from the sun which is from Him and in which He is, passes through the created universe even to the last of all the elements in it. The reason is that Divine things, which in their progression are called celestial and spiritual, are independent of space and time. People know that there is no ascribing of dimension to spiritual things, because no ascribing of space and time. So it is that whatever emanates from the Lord is in an instant present from first things in last ones. That an atmosphere of conjugial love is thus universal may be seen above in nos. 222-225. [2] That an atmosphere of love for little children is, too, is apparent from the existence of that love in heaven, where little children from earth are; and from the existence of that love in the world, in people, and in animals and birds, snakes and insects. Analogues of this love are found also in the vegetable and mineral kingdoms. In the vegetable kingdom, seeds are protected by coverings like swaddling clothes, are sheltered in fruit as in a house, and are nourished by the juice as with milk. Something similar is found in the case of minerals, as appears from the matrices and encasements in which fine gems and noble metals are hidden and protected.