Take one of his sentences by itself and a volume could be made of it'; and the disciple quotes the following passages taken from a thousand others that would answer the same purpose.
"'The kingdom of heaven,' says Swedenborg ('Celestial Arcana'), 'is the kingdom of motives.

_Action_ is born in heaven, thence into the world, and, by degrees, to the infinitely remote parts of earth.

Terrestrial effects being thus linked to celestial causes, all things are _correspondent_ and _significant_.

Man is the means of union between the Natural and the Spiritual.' "The Angelic Spirits therefore know the very nature of the Correspondences which link to heaven all earthly things; they know, too, the inner meaning of the prophetic words which foretell their evolutions.

Thus to these Spirits everything here below has its significance; the tiniest flower is a thought,--a life which corresponds to certain lineaments of the Great Whole, of which they have a constant intuition.