Swedenborg explains in Secrets of Heaven that everything in the natural world is a reflection of something in the spiritual world. He ascribes the action of all influences (flowings-in) of the spiritual world as arising in and manifesting intelligence and volition—volition being agency.
Intelligence and agency are abundantly in evidence at the molecular …
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