leaders have decreed, are to be believed blindly because (as they
say) they transcend the understanding. Some, therefore, have imagined the
spiritual to be like a bird flying above the air in an ether to which the
sight of the eye does not reach; when yet it is like a bird of paradise,
which flies near the eye, even touching the pupil with its beautiful
wings and longing to be seen. By the sight of the eye intellectual vision
is meant.

375. The correspondence of the will and understanding with the heart and
lungs cannot be abstractly proved, that is, by mere reasonings, but it
may be proved by effects. It is much the same as it is with the causes of
things which can be seen rationally, yet not clearly except by means of
effects; for causes are in effects, and by means of effects make
themselves visible; and until causes are thus made visible, the mind is
not assured respecting them. In what follows, the effects of this
correspondence will be described. But lest any one should fall into ideas
of this correspondence imbibed from hypotheses about the soul, let him
first read over carefully the propositions in the preceding chapter, as
follows: Love and wisdom, and the will and understanding therefrom, make
the very life of man (n. 363, 365). The life of man is in first principles
in the brains, and in derivatives in the body (n. 365). Such as life is
in first principles, such it is in the whole and in every part (n. 366).
By means of these first principles life is in the whole from every part,
and in every part from the whole (n. 367). Such as the love is, such is
the wisdom, consequently such is the man (n. 368).

376. It is permitted to introduce here, in the way of evidence, a
representation of the correspondence of the will and understanding with
the heart and lungs which was seen in heaven among the angels. By a
wonderful flowing into spiral movements, such as no words can express,
the angels formed the likeness of a heart and the likeness of lungs, with
all the interior structures therein; and in this they were falling in with
the flow of heaven, for heaven from the inflowing of love and wisdom from
the Lord strives to come into such forms. They thus represented the
conjunction of the heart and lungs, and at the same time the correspondence
of these with the love of the will and with the wisdom of the
understanding. This correspondence and union they called the heavenly
marriage; saying that in the whole body, and i