1358. WHAT THE TONGUE SIGNIFIES AND WHO THEY ARE WHO CONSTITUTE THAT PROVINCE The tongue affords entrance both to the lungs and to the stomach, and so provides for both. Thus it signifies a court-yard, as it were, to spiritual and celestial things. For the lungs signify spiritual things, and the stomach, because it pertains to the heart to which it ministers [by providing] the blood with its aliments, and for other reasons, serves as a court-yard to celestial things. It is by aid of the lungs that man is able to speak.