The Divine good that goes forth from the Lord is united with His Divine
truth, as heat from the sun is with light in the time of spring. But
angels, who are recipients of the Divine good and Divine truth going
forth from the Lord, are distinguished as celestial and spiritual.
Those who receive more of the Lord's Divine good than of His Divine
truth are called celestial angels; because these constitute the kingdom
of the Lord that is called the celestial kingdom. But the angels who
receive more of the Lord's Divine truth than of his Divine good are
called spiritual angels, because of these the Lord's spiritual kingdom
consists. This makes clear that goods and truths have a twofold origin,
namely, a celestial origin and a spiritual origin. Those goods and
truths that are from a celestial origin are the goods and truths of love
to the Lord; while those goods and truths that are from a spiritual
origin are the goods and truths of love toward the neighbor. The
difference is like that between higher and lower, or between inner and
outer; thus like that between things that are in a higher or inner
degree, and those that are in a lower or outer degree; and what this
difference is can be seen from what has been said in the work on Heaven
and Hell about the three degrees of the heavens, and thus of the angels
and their intelligence and wisdom (H.H., n. 33, 34, 38, 39, 208, 209,
211, 435). (A.E., n. 1042.)
As the heavens are divided into two kingdoms, namely, into a celestial
kingdom and a spiritual kingdom, so are the hells divided into two
domains opposite to those kingdoms. The domain opposite to the celestial
kingdom is called devilish, and the domain opposite to the spiritual
kingdom is called infernal. These domains are distinguished in the Word
by the names Devil and Satan. There are two domains in the hells,
because the heavens and the hells are opposite to each other; and
opposite must fully correspond to opposite that there may be
equilibrium. For the springing forth and permanence of all things, both
in the natural world and in the spiritual world, depend upon an exact
equilibrium between two activities that are opposite; and when these act
against each other manifestly, they act by forces, but when not
manifestly they act by endeavors (canatus). By means of equilibriums
all things in both worlds are preserved; without this all things would
perish. In the spiritual world the equilibrium is between good from
heaven and evil from hell; and thus between truth from heaven and
falsity from hell. For the Lord arranges unceasingly that all kinds and
species of good and truth in the heavens shall have opposite to them in
the hells evils and falsities of kinds that correspond by opposition;
thus goods and truths from a celestial origin have for their opposites
evils and falsities that are called devilish; and in like manner goods
and truths from a spiritual origin have for their opposites evils and
falsities that are called infernal. The cause of these equilibriums is
to be found in the fact that the same Divine goods and Divine truths
that the angels in the heavens receive from the Lord, the spirits in the
hells turn into evils and falsities. All angels, spirits, and men are
kept by the Lord in equilibrium between good and evil, and thus between
truth and falsity, in order that they may be in freedom; and thus may be
led from evil to good and from falsity to truth easily and as if by
themselves, although in fact they are led by the Lord. For the same
reason they are led in freedom from good to evil, and from truth to
falsity, and this, too, as if by themselves, although the leading is
from hell. (A.E., n. 1043.)