967. THAT THE TONGUE PERTAINS TO SPIRITUAL AND CELESTIAL THINGS By living experience it was made known to me that the tongue pertains to spiritual and also to celestial things, and that by means of it a passage is open to the one and the other, namely, from the spiritual to the celestial, and conversely. The tongue, therefore, presides over both the lungs and the viscera of the heart. This is more clearly evident from its double function, in that it pertains to spiritual things by speech, and to celestial things by taste. Thus those who constitute the province of the tongue are such that through them there is a passage from spiritual things to celestial. 1748, Feb. 24.