August 2, 2026

Abstract: Drawing from a segment of the Bible Commentary “Secrets of Heaven” by Emanuel Swedenborg, we can see that the general organization of the Lord’s heaven has been revealed. We know from 2 Corinthians 12:2 in the Holy Bible that the Apostle Paul wrote he had been transported to the “third heaven”. So, by that insinuation, we can extrapolate that there must be a first and second heaven.

Similarly, we can see that a piece of fruit or a grain of wheat, for example, gives us a picture of the organization of God’s heaven. It brings to the mind two main elements: the perceived spatial wrap and, most importantly, the spiritual significance of life there. And the two are inseparable.

The people on the earth who are striving to reach up and obtain God, as He has obtained us, can draw much inspiration from these simple comparisons.

The Organization of Heaven Seen in a Piece of Fruit or A Grain. From “Secrets of Heaven” by Emanuel Swedenborg. Section 9666 [2]

“None can have any real knowledge of these matters unless they know about the nature of things which are more internal and those which are more external in the spiritual world. Things that are the best and purest, and so more perfect than all others, exist in the inmost part. Those which are spread out from there towards more external parts are less and less perfect the further away they lie from inmost things, ending in those in the outermost parts, which are the least perfect of all.

Things are said to be less perfect when they can be more easily twisted out of the shape and beauty they possess, and so out of the order that is theirs. The situation in all this is like that with fruits. Within them they have seeds, surrounded by the flesh. The seeds exist in a state more perfect than the flesh outside them, as becomes clear from the fact that when the flesh decays the seeds still remain intact. The like applies to the seeds themselves. Inmostly in these there is the reproductive germ, which exists in a perfect state compared with the parts outside it; for the germ remains in its intactness, producing a new tree or young plant when the more external parts of the seed are broken down.

Things in heaven are arranged in the same way. The inmost things there, being closer to the Lord, exist in a perfect state compared with more external ones. For this reason the inmost heaven enjoys greater wisdom and intelligence, and consequently greater happiness than the heavens below. The like applies within each heaven; the inmost is more perfect than the surrounding parts. The like applies also to the person with whom the good of love and the truths of faith are present. That person’s internal exists in a more perfect state than the external; for the internal man dwells in the heat and light of heaven, but the external in the heat and light of the world. In every perfect form the situation is the same, in that its inmost part is the best, the inmost being what is meant by ‘the middle’.”

“Not that I have now attained [this ideal], or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of (grasp) and make my own, that for which Christ Jesus (the Messiah) has laid hold of me and made me His own. I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own [yet]; but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward” (Philippians 3:12-14) AMP