10. We said that in the spiritual world just as in the natural world, intervals of space appear, consequently also intervening intervals of space, but that these are appearances in accordance with spiritual affinities which are affinities of love and wisdom or of good and truth. So it is that even though the Lord is in the heavens with angels everywhere, still He appears high above them as the sun. Moreover, because reception of His love and wisdom brings about an affinity with Him, therefore heavens in which the angels by their reception possess a closer affinity appear closer to Him than heavens in which the angels possess a more distant affinity. That, too, is why the heavens-of which there are three-are apart from each other, likewise the societies in each heaven, and why the hells beneath these are still more remote according to their rejection of His love and wisdom. The case is the same with people, in whom and with whom the Lord is present throughout the entire world; and this solely because the Lord does not exist in space.