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law of correspondence

law of correspondence proper noun: the principle that any material thing or circumstance is the effect or reflection of a spiritual or celestial counterpart, and vice versa.

Proper noun

the law of correspondence

  1. The principle that any material thing or circumstance is the effect or reflection of a spiritual or celestial counterpart, and vice versa.
    • And we look about us, and see what kind of things the law of correspondence has filled the world with. For we know that the things of this world are such as they are, that they may correspond with the things of our souls.1839, Theophilus Parsons, Sunday Lessons for the Instruction of Children of the New Church in Schools or at Home, pages 103–4
    • In the light of these disclosures we see that all the splendid habitations and magnificent palaces of heaven are but pictorial representations, under the law of correspondence, of the ruling loves of the angels.1885, Benjamin Fiske Barrett, Heaven Revealed: Being a Popular Representation of Swedenborg’s Disclosures About Heaven […], 4th edition, page 243

Origin of law of correspondence

Originally after the works of Emanuel Swedenborg. See correspondence.

Questions about law of correspondence

What does law of correspondence mean?
Law of correspondence means the principle that any material thing or circumstance is the effect or reflection of a spiritual or celestial counterpart, and vice versa.
What part of speech is law of correspondence?
Law of correspondence is a proper noun.

Words near law of correspondence in the dictionary

  1. law of attraction
  2. law of averages
  3. law of conservation of mass
  4. Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu
  5. law of contradiction
  6. law of correspondence
  7. law of cosines
  8. law of demand
  9. Law of Demeter
  10. law of diminishing marginal utility
  11. law of diminishing returns

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