pendence and the greatest conceivable variety, is not the human body the very thing we should select? And as all parts of the body are nourished and vitalized by the same blood, so all the diverse angelic societies are pervaded and animated by one and the same Divine Spirit. The Lord's own life is the animating principle—the very life-blood—of them all.
Time and Space in Heaven.
Time in the natural world is measured by some regular movement through space, as the hands of a clock, or the earth's revolution on its axis or around the sun. In heaven there is no such time as this. There is an appearance of time there as here, but it is caused by, and is in correspondence with, the changes of state with the angels. Speaking of the apparent movement of the sun of our world, producing what we call time, Swedenborg says: