Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 4045

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4045. Because such correspondence exists and heaven is divided up into many smaller heavens, and these into still smaller ones, and everywhere into separate communities, there are heavens which correlate with the cerebrum and cerebellum in general, and within these heavens smaller ones which correlate with the parts or members in the brains. There are those, for example, which correlate with the dura mater, those which do so with the soft or pia mater, those with the sinuses, also those which correlate with the corpora and cava there - the corpus callosum, corpora striate, the lesser glands, the ventricles, the infundibulum, and so on. The nature of the things therefore which correlate with one part or another has been disclosed to me, as may become clear from what follows below.


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