light flow in from the sun of the
world alike to trees bearing bad fruit and to trees bearing good fruit,
and they are alike quickened and grow. The forms into which the heat
flows make the difference, not the heat in itself. It is the same with
light, which is turned into various colors according to the forms into
which it flows. The colors are beautiful and gay or ugly and sombre, and
yet it is the same light. It is so with the influx of spiritual heat
which in itself is love, and with spiritual light which in itself is
wisdom, from the sun of the spiritual world. The forms into which they
flow cause diversity, but not in itself that heat which is love or that
light which is wisdom. The forms into which these flow are human minds.
It is clear from these considerations that man is led and taught by the
Lord alone.

161. What the life of animals is, however, was shown above (nn. 74, 96),
namely that it is a life of merely natural affection with its attendant
knowledge, and a mediated life corresponding to the life of human beings
in the spiritual world.

162. (ii) _Man is led and taught by the Lord alone through the angelic
heaven and from it._ We say "through" the angelic heaven and from it, but
that He does so "through" the angelic heaven is the apparent fact, while
"from it" is the reality. The Lord seems to lead and teach through the
angelic heaven because He appears above that heaven as a sun, but the
reality is that He does so from heaven because He is in heaven as the
soul is in man. For the Lord is omnipresent and not in space, as was
shown above. Therefore distance is an appearance according to conjunction
with Him, and the conjunction is according to the reception of love and
wisdom from Him. Since no one can be conjoined to the Lord as He exists
in Himself He appears to angels at a distance as a sun; nevertheless He
is in the angelic heaven as the soul is in man. He is similarly in every
society of heaven and in every angel, for man's soul is not only the soul
of man as a whole but also of every part of him.

[2] It is according to the appearance that the Lord governs all heaven
and through it the world from the sun which is from Him and in which He
is (about the sun see Part II of the treatise _Divine Love and Wisdom_),
and everyone is allowed to speak according to the appearance, cannot, in
fact, do otherwise. Everyone who is not in wisdom itself is also allowed
to think that the Lord rules each and all t