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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called
+Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There, by Emanuel Swedenborg
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+Title: Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There
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+Author: Emanuel Swedenborg
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+EARTHS IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
+
+WHICH ARE CALLED PLANETS
+
+AND
+
+EARTHS IN THE STARRY HEAVEN
+
+THEIR INHABITANTS, AND THE SPIRITS AND ANGELS THERE
+
+FROM THINGS HEARD AND SEEN
+
+
+
+_FROM THE LATIN_
+
+OF
+
+EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
+
+
+SWEDENBORG SOCIETY (Incorporated) 20-21 BLOOMSBURY WAY, LONDON, W.C.1
+1962
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+_The issues of this volume in a demy 8vo edition by the Swedenborg
+Society have been:--_
+
+  _First Edition_   1860
+  _Second Edition_  1875
+  _Third Edition_   1894
+  _Reprinted_       1909
+        "                1931
+        "                1940
+        "                1962
+
+_For other editions, see "A Bibliography of the Works of Emanuel
+Swedenborg"_ (JAMES HYDE).
+
+
+
+_Printed in Great Britain by Morrison & Gibb Ltd., London and
+Edinburgh_
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+TABLE OF CONTENTS.
+
+                               NOS.
+
+  EARTHS IN THE UNIVERSE,      1-8
+
+  THE PLANET MERCURY,      9-45
+
+  THE PLANET JUPITER,      46-84
+
+  THE PLANET MARS,      85-96
+
+  THE PLANET SATURN,      97-104
+
+  THE PLANET VENUS,      105-110
+
+  THE MOON,      111, 112
+
+  REASONS WHY THE LORD WILLED TO BE BORN ON OUR EARTH, AND NOT ON
+          ANY OTHER,      113-122
+
+  EARTHS IN THE STARRY HEAVEN,      123-126
+
+  THE FIRST EARTH IN THE STARRY HEAVEN,      127-137
+
+  THE SECOND EARTH IN THE STARRY HEAVEN,      138-147
+
+  THE THIRD EARTH IN THE STARRY HEAVEN,      148-156
+
+  THE FOURTH EARTH IN THE STARRY HEAVEN,      157-167
+
+  THE FIFTH EARTH IN THE STARRY HEAVEN,      168-178
+
+
+                                     PAGE
+
+  INDEX OF SUBJECTS,                  101
+
+  INDEX OF SCRIPTURE REFERENCES,      106
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+EARTHS IN THE UNIVERSE.
+
+
+1. Inasmuch as, by the Divine mercy of the Lord, the interiors which
+are of my spirit have been opened in me, and it has thereby been given
+me to speak with spirits and angels, not only with those who are near
+our Earth, but also with those who are near other earths; and since I
+had an ardent desire to know whether there were other earths, and to
+know their character and the character of their inhabitants; it has
+been granted me by the Lord to speak and have intercourse with spirits
+and angels who are from other earths, with some for a day, with
+some for a week, with some for months; and to be instructed by them
+respecting the earths from and near which they were, and concerning
+the life, customs, and worship of their inhabitants, besides various
+other things there that are worthy of note. And since it has been
+given me to become acquainted with these matters in this way, it is
+permitted me to describe them from the things which I have heard and
+seen. It is necessary that it be known that all spirits and angels are
+from the human race[a], and that they are near their own earths[b],
+and are acquainted with what is upon them; and that a man may be
+instructed by them, if his interiors are so far opened as to enable
+him to speak and be in company with them: for man in his essence is
+a spirit[c], and is in company with spirits as to his interiors[d];
+wherefore he whose interiors are opened by the Lord, is able to speak
+with them, as man with man[e]. It has now been granted me to enjoy
+this privilege daily for twelve years.
+
+[Footnote: _From the_ ARCANA COELESTIA: _in which work these and
+subsequent articles, which are inserted below the line, are explained
+and shown._]
+
+[Footnote a: There are no spirits and angels who are not from the
+human race, no. 1880.]
+
+[Footnote b: The spirits of every earth are near their own earth,
+because they are of its inhabitants, and of a similar genius; and they
+are meant to be of service to them, no. 9968.]
+
+[Footnote c: The soul, which lives after death, is the spirit of man,
+which in a man is the man himself, and also appears in the other life
+in a perfect human form, nos. 322, 1880, 1881, 3633, 4622, 4735, 6054,
+6605, 6626, 7021, 10594.]
+
+[Footnote d: Man, even during his abode in the world, is, as to his
+interiors, consequently as to his spirit or soul, in the midst of
+spirits and angels who are of such a character as he himself is, nos.
+2379, 3645, 4067, 4073, 4077.]
+
+[Footnote e: Man is capable of speaking with spirits and angels, and
+the ancients on our Earth frequently spoke with them, nos. 67, 68, 69,
+784, 1634, 1636, 7802. But at the present day it is dangerous for man
+to speak with them, unless he be in a true faith, and be led by the
+Lord, nos. 784, 9438, 10751.]
+
+2. That there are many earths, and men upon them, and spirits and
+angels from them, is very well known in the other life; for in that
+life, every one who from a love of the truth and consequent use
+desires it, is allowed to speak with the spirits of other earths, so
+as to be convinced that there is a plurality of worlds, and informed
+that the human race is not from one earth only, but from numberless
+earths; and so as to be informed, besides, of what genius and life
+they are, and of what character their Divine worship is.
+
+3. I have sometimes spoken on this subject with the spirits of our
+Earth, and it was said that a man of sound understanding may conclude,
+from many things which he knows, that there are more earths than one,
+and that there are human beings upon them. For it is an inference of
+reason, that such huge bodies as the planets are, some of which exceed
+this Earth in magnitude, are not empty bodies, created only to be
+carried and to rotate around the sun, and to shine with their scanty
+light (_lumen_) for the benefit of one earth only; but that they must
+needs have a nobler use than this. He who believes, as every one ought
+to believe, that the Divine created the universe for no other end
+than the existence of the human race, and of a heaven from it (for
+the human race is the seminary of heaven), cannot but believe that
+wherever there is an earth, there are human beings. That the planets,
+which are visible to our eyes, being within the boundaries of this
+solar system, are earths, may be clearly seen from the following
+considerations. They are bodies of earthy matter, because they reflect
+the sun's light (_lumen_), and, when seen through the telescope,
+appear, not as stars shining from their flame, but as earths
+(_terrae_) variegated with dark spots. Like our Earth, they are
+carried round the sun and advance progressively through the path of
+the zodiac, which motion causes years, and seasons of the year, which
+are spring, summer, autumn, and winter. They likewise rotate upon
+their own axis, just as our Earth does, and this rotation causes days,
+and times of the day, that is, morning, mid-day, evening, and
+night. And moreover, some of them also have moons, which are called
+satellites, which perform their revolutions around their globes in
+stated times, as the moon does around ours. The planet Saturn, because
+it is so very far distant from the sun, has also a great luminous
+ring, which supplies that earth with much, although reflected, light.
+How is it possible for any one who is acquainted with these facts, and
+thinks from reason, to assert that such bodies are uninhabited?
+
+4. I have, moreover, spoken with spirits [to the effect] that men may
+be led to believe that there are more earths in the universe than one,
+by considering the immensity of the starry heaven with its innumerable
+stars, each of which, in its own place, that is, in its own system, is
+a sun, and like our sun, but differs in magnitude. Any one who rightly
+weighs these facts must conclude that so immense a whole cannot but be
+the means to an end which is the final end of creation, and that this
+end is a heavenly kingdom, in which the Divine may dwell with angels
+and men. For the visible universe, that is, the heaven resplendent
+with such an innumerable multitude of stars, which are so many suns,
+is merely a means for the existence of earths, and of human beings
+upon them, from whom a heavenly kingdom [may be formed]. From these
+considerations a rational man cannot but think that a means so immense
+to an end so great was not provided for a human race, and a heaven
+from them, from one earth only. What would this be to the Divine,
+who is infinite, and to whom thousands, yea, myriads, of earths,
+all filled with inhabitants, would be but a little thing and almost
+nothing!
+
+5. Besides, the angelic heaven is so immense that it corresponds to
+each single part in man, myriads [of angels corresponding] to each
+member, and organ, and viscus, and to each affection of them; and
+it has been given me to know that this heaven, as to all its
+correspondences, cannot possibly exist except from the inhabitants of
+very many earths[f].
+
+[Footnote f: Heaven corresponds to the Lord, and man, as to all things
+in general and particular, corresponds to heaven; and hence heaven,
+before the Lord, is a Man in a large effigy, and may be called the
+Grand or Greatest Man, nos. 2996, 2998, 3624-3649, 3741-3746, 4625.
+Concerning the correspondence of man, and of all things pertaining to
+him, with the Grand Man, which is heaven, in general, from experience,
+nos. 3021, 3624-3649, 3741-3751, 3883-3896, 4039-4055, 4218-4218-4228,
+4318-4331, 4403-4421, 4523-4533, 4622-4633, 4652-4660, 4791-4805,
+4931-4953, 5050-5061, 5171-5189, 5377-5396, 5552-5573, 5711-5727,
+10030.]
+
+6. There are spirits whose sole study is the acquisition of knowledges
+finding in them their only delight. These spirits are therefore
+permitted to wander about, and even to pass beyond this solar system
+into others, and procure knowledges. They have stated that there are
+earths in immense numbers, inhabited by human beings, not only in this
+solar system, but in the starry heaven beyond it. These spirits are
+from the planet Mercury.
+
+7. With regard, in general, to the Divine worship of the inhabitants
+of other earths: all there, who are not idolaters, acknowledge the
+Lord to be the One only God; for they adore the Divine, not as an
+invisible Divine, but as visible, for this reason, besides others,
+that when the Divine appears to them it is in the Human Form, as He
+formerly did to Abraham and others on this Earth [g]; and all who
+adore the Divine under the Human Form are accepted by the Lord [h].
+They also say that no one can worship God rightly, and still less be
+conjoined with Him, unless he comprehends Him by some idea, and that
+God cannot be comprehended except in the Human Form; and that if He
+be not thus comprehended, the interior sight, which is that of the
+thought, concerning God, is dissipated, as is the sight of the eye,
+when looking into the universe with nothing to limit the view; and
+that then the thought cannot but fall into nature, and worship it
+instead of God.
+
+[Footnote g: The inhabitants of all the earths adore the Divine Being
+under the Human Form, consequently the Lord, nos. 8541-8547, 10159,
+10736, 10737, 10738. And they rejoice when they hear that God actually
+became Man, no. 9361. It is impossible to think of God except in the
+Human Form, nos. 8705, 9359, 9972. Man is able to worship and love
+that of which he has some idea, but not that of which he has no idea,
+nos. 4733, 5110, 5663, 7211, 9167, 10067.]
+
+[Footnote h: The Lord receives all who are in good, and who adore the
+Divine under the Human Form, nos. 9359, 7178.]
+
+8. When they were told that the Lord assumed the Human on our Earth,
+they pondered for awhile, and then said that it was done for the
+salvation of the human race.
+
+
+
+
+THE EARTH OR PLANET MERCURY, AND ITS SPIRIT AND INHABITANTS
+
+
+9. That the entire heaven resembles one man, who is therefore called
+the Grand or Greatest Man (_Maximus Homo_), and that all things in
+general and particular in man, both his exteriors and interiors,
+correspond to that man or to heaven, is an arcanum as yet unknown in
+the world; but that it is so has been shown in many passages[i].
+But to constitute that Grand Man, those who come from our Earth into
+heaven are insufficient, being comparatively few; they must come from
+many other earths: and it is provided by the Lord that as soon as
+there is in any part a deficiency in the quality or quantity of the
+correspondence, those who may supply it shall be immediately summoned
+from another earth, in order that the proportion may be preserved, and
+heaven by this means maintain its consistence.
+
+[Footnote i: See note f.]
+
+10. It has also been disclosed to me from heaven, what the spirits
+from the planet Mercury have relation to in the Grand Man, namely,
+that they have relation to the memory, but to the memory of things
+abstracted from earthly and merely material things. As, however, it
+has been given me to speak with them, and this for many weeks, and to
+learn of what character they are, and to examine how the inhabitants
+of that earth are circumstanced, I wish to adduce the experiences
+themselves.
+
+11. Some spirits came to me, and it was stated from heaven that they
+were from the earth nearest to the sun, which on our Earth is called
+the planet Mercury. Immediately on their coming they sifted out of my
+memory the things that I knew. This, spirits can do most skilfully,
+for when they come to a man they see in his memory all the particulars
+it contains[j]. While passing in review the various things, and, among
+others, the cities and places where I had been, I observed that they
+had no wish to know the temples, palaces, houses, and streets, but
+only the things I knew to have been done in them, also the things that
+related to the government there, and to the genius and manners of the
+inhabitants, and other similar things; for such matters are closely
+associated with the places in a man's memory, so that when the places
+are called to mind, these matters also suggest themselves. I was
+surprised to find them of such a character, and therefore inquired
+why they disregarded the magnificent objects of the places, and only
+inquired into the facts and transactions connected with them. They
+said that they had no delight in regarding material, corporeal, and
+terrestrial things, but only things that are real. Hence it was proved
+that the spirits of that earth, in the Grand Man, have relation to the
+memory of things abstracted from material and terrestrial things.
+
+[Footnote j: Spirits enter into all things of man's memory, and do
+not [insinuate anything] from their own [memory] into the man's, nos.
+2488, 5863, 6192, 6193, 6198, 6199, 6214. The angels enter into
+the affections and ends, from which and for the sake of which a man
+thinks, wills, and acts in such or such a manner in preference to
+every other, nos. 1317, 1645, 5844.]
+
+12. I was told that the life of the inhabitants of that earth is such,
+namely, that they do not concern themselves about terrestrial and
+corporeal things, but only about the statutes, laws, and governments
+of the nations there; and also about the things of heaven, which are
+innumerable. I was further informed, that many of the men (_homines_)
+of that earth converse with spirits, and that thence they have
+knowledges respecting spiritual things and the states of life after
+death, and that thence also they have a contempt for corporeal and
+terrestrial things; for those who know for a certainty, and believe,
+that there is a life after death, are concerned about heavenly things,
+as being eternal and blessed, but not about worldly things, except so
+far as the necessities of life require. Such being the character of
+its inhabitants, such also is that of the spirits who are from it[k].
+
+[Footnote k: The spirits who are with man are in possession of all
+things of his memory, nos. 5853, 5857, 5859, 5860.]
+
+13. How eagerly they search for and imbibe the knowledges of such
+things as pertain to the memory raised above the sensual things of
+the body, was made manifest to me from the circumstance that when they
+looked into the things which I knew respecting heavenly subjects, they
+ran over them all, and kept on stating the nature of each. For when
+spirits come to a man, they enter into the whole of his memory, and
+call forth from it what suits themselves; nay, what I have often
+observed, they read its contents as from a book[k]. These spirits did
+this more skilfully and quickly, because they did not linger over such
+matters as are heavy and sluggish, and confine and consequently impede
+the internal sight, as is the nature of all terrestrial and corporeal
+things, when regarded as ends, that is, when alone loved; but they
+devoted their attention to things themselves; for those matters to
+which terrestrial things do not cling, carry the mind (_animus_)
+upwards, and so introduce it into a wide field [of view], whereas
+merely material things drag the mind (_animus_) downwards, and thus
+limit and imprison it. Their eagerness to acquire knowledges
+and enrich the memory was further evident from the following
+circumstances: Once, when I was writing something concerning things
+to come, and they were at a distance, so that they could not look into
+those things from my memory; because I was unwilling to read them in
+their presence, they were very indignant, and, contrary to their usual
+demeanour, they were disposed to inveigh against me, saying that I
+was the worst of men, and other like things; and, to show their
+resentment, they caused a kind of contraction, attended with pain, on
+the right side of my head as far as the ear; but such treatment did me
+no harm. As, however, they had done evil, they removed themselves to
+a still greater distance, yet kept stopping, being desirous of knowing
+what I had written. Such is their eager desire for knowledges.
+
+14. The spirits of Mercury, more than other spirits, possess the
+knowledges of things, both of those which are within this solar
+system, and those which are beyond it in the starry heaven; and
+whatever things they have once acquired they retain, and recollect
+them as often as similar ones occur. From this also it may manifestly
+appear that spirits have memory, and that it is much more perfect than
+that of men; and further, that spirits retain what they hear, see, and
+apperceive, and especially such matters as they are delighted with, as
+these spirits are with the knowledges of things; for things that are
+matters of delight and love flow in as it were spontaneously, and
+remain; other things do not enter, but only touch the surface and pass
+by.
+
+15. When the spirits of Mercury come to other societies, they try
+to discover from them what they know, and when they have ascertained
+this, they depart. There is also such a communication among spirits,
+and especially among angels, that when they are in a society, if they
+are accepted and loved, they communicate or share all they know.[l]
+
+[Footnote l: In the heavens there is a communication of all goods,
+inasmuch as heavenly love communicates all its possessions to others;
+and hence the angels derive wisdom and happiness, nos. 549, 550, 1390,
+1391, 1399, 10130, 10723.]
+
+16. The spirits of Mercury, on account of their knowledges, are more
+conceited than others; wherefore they were told that, although they
+know innumerable things, there is yet an infinity of things which they
+do not know; and that even were the knowledges with them to increase
+to eternity, they would still be unable to attain to so much as an
+acquaintance with the generals of all things. They were told that they
+were conceited and elated of disposition, and that this character
+is unbecoming; but they replied, that it is not conceit, but only a
+glorying on account of the capacity of their memory. Thus they have
+the art of excusing their faults.
+
+17. They are averse to verbal speech, because it is material;
+wherefore, when I conversed with them without intermediate spirits, I
+could only do so by a kind of active thought. Their memory, because it
+is a memory of things, not of purely material images, brings nearer
+to the thought its proper objects; for the thought, which is above the
+imagination, requires for its objects things abstracted from those
+of matter. But notwithstanding that this is the case, the spirits
+of Mercury excel but little in the faculty of judgment. They take no
+delight in the things which pertain to judgment and to conclusions
+from knowledges; for their delight is in the bare knowledges.
+
+18. It was suggested to them, whether they did not wish to make any
+use of their knowledges; for it is not enough to be delighted with
+knowledges, because knowledges have respect to uses, and uses ought
+to be their ends; that from knowledges alone no use results to
+themselves, but to others with whom they are willing to share or
+communicate them; and that it is not at all meet for a man who wants
+to become wise to stand still in knowledges alone, inasmuch as
+these are only instrumental causes, meant to be serviceable for the
+investigation of matters which ought to belong to the life. But they
+replied that they were delighted with knowledges, and that to them
+knowledges were uses.
+
+19. Some of them, also, wish to appear, not as men, like the spirits
+of other earths, but as crystalline globes. Their wanting to appear
+so, although they do not, arises from the circumstance that the
+knowledges of immaterial things are in the other life represented by
+crystals.
+
+20. The spirits of Mercury differ entirely from those of our Earth,
+for the spirits of our Earth concern themselves not so much about
+[immaterial] things as about worldly, corporeal, and terrestrial
+things, which are material. For this reason the spirits of Mercury
+cannot be together with the spirits of our Earth, and therefore
+wherever they meet them they flee away, for the spiritual spheres that
+are exhaled from both are almost contrary. The spirits of Mercury have
+a common saying, that they do not want to look at the sheath, but at
+things stripped of their sheath, thus at interior things.
+
+21. There appeared a flame of considerable brightness, which blazed
+cheerfully, and this for about an hour. That flame signified the
+advent of some spirits of Mercury who, for penetration, thought, and
+speech, were prompter than those who preceded them. When they were
+come, they instantly ran over the things that were in my memory,
+but, owing to their promptness, I was unable to apperceive what they
+observed. Immediately afterwards, I heard them say that the matter
+was thus and thus. With regard to the things which I had seen in the
+heavens and in the world of spirits, they said that they knew them
+before. I perceived that a multitude of spirits who were consociated
+with them, was behind, a little to the left, in the plane of the
+occiput.
+
+22. At another time I saw a multitude of such spirits, but at some
+little distance from me, in front a little to the right, and they
+spoke with me from thence, but through intermediate spirits; for their
+speech is as quick as thought, which does not fall into human speech,
+except by means of other spirits; and what surprised me, they spoke
+in a body, and yet as promptly and rapidly as possible. Their speech,
+being of many together, was apperceived as undulatory, and, what was
+remarkable, it glided towards my left eye, although they were to the
+right. The reason was, that the left eye corresponds to the knowledges
+of things abstracted from material things, thus to such as belong to
+intelligence, while the right eye corresponds to such as belong
+to wisdom[m]. With the same promptness with which they spoke, they
+perceived the things that they heard, and formed their judgment upon
+them, saying of one thing that it was so, and of another that it was
+not so, their judgment being as it were instantaneous.
+
+[Footnote m: The eye corresponds to the understanding, because
+the understanding is the internal sight, and the sight of things
+immaterial, nos. 2701, 4410, 4526, 9051, 10569. The sight of the left
+eye corresponds to truths, consequently to intelligence; and the sight
+of the right eye corresponds to the goods of truth, consequently to
+wisdom, no. 4410.]
+
+23. There was a spirit from another earth, who was well qualified to
+converse with them, being a prompt and rapid speaker, but who affected
+elegance in his discourse. They instantly formed their judgment
+concerning whatever he spoke, saying of one thing that it was too
+elegantly, of another that it was too learnedly expressed; so that the
+only thing they attended to was, whether they heard from him anything
+which was not known to them before, rejecting thereby such things as
+obscured the subject, which are chiefly affectations of elegance in
+expression and of erudition; for these hide the things themselves and
+in their place substitute expressions, which are the material forms
+of things; on these the speaker keeps his mind (_animus_) fixed, and
+wants to draw attention to his expressions rather than their meaning,
+by which the ears of his auditors are more affected than their minds
+(_mens_).
+
+24. The spirits of the earth Mercury do not tarry in one place, or
+among assemblies of the spirits of one system, but wander through
+the universe. The reason is that they have reference to the memory
+of things, which requires to be continually enriched; therefore it is
+granted them to wander about, and everywhere acquire knowledges.
+If, while travelling in this manner, they meet with spirits who love
+material, that is, corporeal and terrestrial things, they shun them,
+and betake themselves to where they do not hear such things. From this
+it may appear that their mind (_animus_) is elevated above sensual
+things, and thus that they are in interior light (_lumen_). This it
+was also given me actually to perceive when they were near me and were
+speaking with me. I observed then that I was withdrawn from sensual
+things to such a degree, that the light (_lumen_) of my eyes began to
+grow dull and dim.
+
+25. The spirits of that earth go about by companies and phalanxes, and
+when assembled together they form as it were a globe. They are joined
+together in this manner by the Lord in order that they may act as a
+one, and that the knowledges of each may be communicated to all, and
+the knowledges of all to each, as is the case in heaven[l]. That they
+wander through the universe in quest of the knowledges of things, was
+made manifest to me also from this fact, that once, when they appeared
+very remote from me, they spoke with me from thence, and said that
+they were then gathered together, and were going beyond the sphere of
+this system into the starry heaven, where they knew there were such
+as had no concern about terrestrial and corporeal things, but about
+things elevated above them, with whom they desired to be. It was
+stated that they themselves do not know whither they are going, but
+that under the Divine auspices they are conveyed to where they may
+be instructed concerning such things as they had previously been
+unacquainted with, and which are in agreement with the knowledges they
+already possess. It was also stated that they do not know how they
+meet with the companions with whom they are conjoined, and that this
+also is effected under the Divine auspices.
+
+26. As they journey through the universe in this manner, and are thus
+enabled to know more than others about the systems and earths beyond
+the sphere of our solar system, I have spoken with them on this
+subject also. They said that in the universe there are very many
+earths, with human beings upon them; and that they wonder at its being
+supposed by some, whom they called men of little judgment, that the
+heaven of the Omnipotent God consists only of the spirits and angels
+who come from one earth, when these are so few that, relatively to the
+Omnipotence of God, they are scarcely anything, and this would be the
+case even if there were myriads of systems with myriads of earths.
+They said, moreover, that they knew of the existence of earths in the
+universe exceeding in number some hundreds of thousands; and yet what
+is this to the Divine, who is Infinite!
+
+27. The spirits of Mercury, when they were with me while I was writing
+and explaining the Word as to its internal sense, and who perceived
+what I was writing, said that the things which I wrote were very
+gross, and that almost all the expressions appeared as material. But
+it was given to reply, that the men of our Earth nevertheless look
+upon the things that have been written, as subtle and elevated, and
+that many things they do not understand. I added, that very many on
+this Earth do not know that it is the internal man that acts on the
+external, and causes it to live, and that from the fallacies of the
+senses they persuade themselves that the body has a life of its own,
+and that in consequence the evil and unbelieving are in doubt as to a
+life after death. Also, that that in man which is to live after death
+they do not call the spirit but the soul; and that they dispute about
+what the soul is and where its abode is, and believe that the material
+body, although dispersed to all the winds, must be again conjoined to
+it, in order that man may live as a man; besides many other things of
+the same kind. When the spirits of Mercury heard these things, they
+asked whether such men could become angels. To this it was given to
+answer that those who have lived in the good of faith and charity
+become angels, and that then they are no longer in external and
+material things, but in internal and spiritual things; and that when
+they come into this state, they are in a light superior to that in
+which the spirits from Mercury are. In order that they might know that
+this was so, an angel who had come into heaven from our Earth, and who
+had been such while he lived in the world, was allowed to speak with
+them; which circumstance will be detailed below [at no. 37].
+
+28. Afterwards there was sent me by the spirits of Mercury a long
+paper of an irregular shape, consisting of several papers stuck
+together, which appeared as if printed with types such as are used on
+this Earth. I asked whether they had such among them; but they said
+they had not, but that they knew that there were such printed papers
+on our Earth. They were not willing to say more; but I perceived that
+they thought that the knowledges on our Earth were on papers, and not
+so much within the man himself, thus derisively insinuating that the
+papers, so to speak, knew more than the man. But they were instructed
+as to the real state of the case. After some time they returned, and
+sent me another paper, which also appeared printed with types like
+unto the former one; not, however, like it, stuck together and untidy,
+but symmetrically shaped and neat: they said they had been further
+informed that on this Earth there were such papers, and books made of
+them.
+
+29. From the facts that have now been stated, it clearly appears, that
+spirits retain in the memory the things that they see and hear in the
+other life, and that they are equally capable of being instructed as
+when they were men in the world, consequently, of being instructed in
+those things that are of faith, and thereby of being perfected. The
+more interior spirits and angels are, the more promptly and fully do
+they imbibe, and the more perfectly do they retain [what they hear],
+and as this [capacity remains] for ever, it is evident that wisdom
+is continually growing with them. With the spirits of Mercury, the
+science of things is continually growing, yet not therefore wisdom,
+because they love knowledges, which are means, but not uses, which are
+ends.
+
+30. Furthermore, the character of the genius of the spirits who are
+from the planet Mercury may still further appear from the following
+facts. It must be known that all spirits and angels without exception
+were once men, for the human race is the seminary of heaven; and that
+spirits are altogether such as to their affections and inclinations
+as they had been when they lived as men in the world, for every one's
+life follows him[n]. This being the case, the genius of the men of
+every earth may be known from the genius of the spirits who are from
+it.
+
+[Footnote n: Every one's life remains with him and follows him after
+death, nos. 4227, 7440. The externals of life are kept closed after
+death, and the internals of life are opened, nos. 4314, 5128,
+6495. All things in general and particular of thought are then made
+manifest, nos. 4633, 5128.]
+
+31. Since the spirits of Mercury in the Grand Man have relation to the
+memory of things abstracted from material things, therefore when
+any one speaks to them of terrestrial, corporeal, and merely worldly
+things, they are absolutely unwilling to hear; and if they are forced
+to hear of those things, they transmute them into others, and for the
+most part into contrary things, so as to avoid them.
+
+32. In order that I might know for certain that such was their genius,
+it was allowed to represent to them meadows, fallow-lands, gardens,
+woods, and streams. To represent such things is to exhibit before
+another in imagination those things which, in the other life, appear
+to the life. But they instantly transmuted them; they darkened the
+meadows and fallow-lands, and by representations filled them with
+snakes; the streams they turned black, so that the water no longer
+appeared limpid. When I asked why they did so, they said they did
+not want to think of such things, but of realities, which are the
+knowledges of things abstracted from terrestrial things, especially of
+such as exist in the heavens.
+
+33. I afterwards represented to them birds both large and small,
+such as exist on our Earth; for in the other life such things can be
+represented to the life. On seeing those birds represented, they at
+first wanted to change them, but they afterwards were delighted
+with them, and became quiet; the reason was, that birds signify the
+knowledges of things, and the perception of this fact then flowed
+in[o]; they therefore abstained from transmuting them, and so from
+turning away the ideas of their memory. Afterwards it was permitted
+me to represent before them a very pleasant garden full of lamps and
+lights; they then paused and their attention was fixed, because lamps
+with lights signify truths (_veritates_) which shine from good[p].
+From this it was evident that they could be detained in the
+consideration of material things, provided only that the signification
+of those things in the spiritual sense were insinuated at the same
+time; for the things which belong to the spiritual sense are not
+abstracted from material things to the same extent, inasmuch as they
+are representative of these.
+
+[Footnote o: Birds signify rational things, intellectual things,
+thoughts, ideas, and knowledges, nos. 40, 745, 776, 778, 866, 988,
+993, 5149, 7441. And this with variety according to the genera and
+species of the birds, no. 3219.]
+
+[Footnote p: Lamps with lights signify truths (_veritates_) which
+shine from good, nos. 4638, 9548, 9783.]
+
+34. Moreover, I spoke with them about sheep and lambs, but they were
+not willing to hear of such things, because they were perceived
+by them as terrestrial things; the reason was, that they did
+not understand what innocence is, which lambs signify; this was
+apperceived from the circumstance that, on my saying that lambs, when
+represented in heaven, signify innocence[q], they said that they did
+not know what innocence was, but only knew it by name: the reason is,
+that they are affected with knowledges only, but not with uses, which
+are the ends of knowledges, consequently they are unable to know, from
+internal perception, what innocence is.
+
+[Footnote q: Lambs in heaven, and in the Word, signify innocence, nos.
+3994, 7840, 10132.]
+
+35. Some of the spirits of the earth Mercury came to me, being sent by
+others, in order that they might hear what was going on near me. These
+were told by one of the spirits of our Earth, to tell their [friends]
+not to speak anything but what was true, and not, as they were wont,
+to present opposite things to their questioners; for that if any of
+the spirits of our Earth were to do so, he would be punished. But
+immediately the company from which those spirits had been sent
+forth, and which was at a distance, made answer, that if they must be
+punished on that account, they must all be punished, inasmuch as, from
+continual practice, they could not do otherwise. They said that when
+they speak with the men of their own earth, they also do likewise,
+not, however, with any intention to deceive, but to inspire the desire
+of knowing; for when they present opposite things, and conceal things
+in a certain manner, the desire of knowing is excited, and thus from
+the zeal of exploring those things, the memory is perfected. I also,
+on another occasion, spoke with them on the same subject, and, as
+I knew that they spoke with the men of their earth, I asked in what
+manner they instructed their inhabitants. They said that they do not
+instruct them fully as to how a matter is, but keep insinuating some
+apperception of it, in order that from this the desire of exploring
+and of acquiring knowledge may be nourished and grow; for if they were
+to answer all their questions, the desire would perish. They added,
+that they suggest opposites for this reason also, that the truth
+(_veritas_) may afterwards appear the better; for all truth appears
+from relation to its opposites.
+
+36. It is their custom not to tell another what they know, but still
+they want to learn from all others what is known to them. With their
+own society, however, they communicate everything, insomuch that
+what one knows all know, and what all know each one in the society
+knows[l].
+
+37. Inasmuch as the spirits of Mercury abound in knowledges, they are
+in a certain kind of conceit; hence they imagine that they know so
+much that it is almost impossible to know more. But it was told them
+by the spirits of our Earth, that they do not know much but little,
+and that the things which they do not know are comparatively infinite;
+and that the things which they do not know, are, relatively to those
+they do know, as the waters of the largest ocean to those of a very
+small fountain; and further, that the first step towards wisdom
+consists in knowing, acknowledging, and perceiving that what one
+knows, is, compared with what one does not know, so little as hardly
+to be anything. In order that they might know that it is so, it was
+granted that a certain angelic spirit should speak with them, and tell
+them generally what they knew and what they did not know, and that
+there were infinite things which they did not know, and that eternity
+would not suffice for their acquiring even a general knowledge of
+things. He spoke by means of angelic ideas much more readily than they
+did, and as he disclosed to them what they knew and what they did not
+know, they were struck with amazement. Afterwards I saw another angel
+speaking with them, who appeared at some height towards the right; he
+was from our Earth. He recounted very many things which they did not
+know; and afterwards he spoke with them by means of changes of state,
+which they said they did not understand. He then told them that every
+change of state, and also every smallest part of such change, contains
+infinite things. When they heard this, as they had been conceited on
+account of their knowledges, they began to humble themselves. Their
+humiliation was represented by the sinking downwards of the compact
+body (_volumen_) which they formed (for that company appeared at the
+time as a compact body, in front towards the left, at a distance,
+in the plane of the region below the navel); but the compact body
+appeared as it were hollowed in the middle, and raised at the sides;
+an alternating motion was also observed therein. They were also told
+what that signified, that is, what they thought in their humiliation,
+and that those who appeared elevated at the sides were not as yet in
+any humiliation; and I saw that the compact body was separated, and
+that those who were not in humiliation were sent back towards their
+earth, the rest remaining.
+
+38. There once came some spirits of Mercury to a certain spirit from
+our Earth, who, during his life in the world, had been most celebrated
+for his learning,--he was Christian Wolf--desiring to receive
+information from him on various subjects. But when they perceived that
+what he said was not elevated above the sensual things of the natural
+man, because in speaking he thought of honour, and wanted, as in the
+world (for in the other life every one is like his former self),
+to connect various things into series, and from these again and
+continually to deduce others, and so form several chains of such,
+which they did not see or acknowledge to be true, and which therefore
+they declared to be chains which neither cohered in themselves nor
+with the conclusions, and called them the obscurity of authority, they
+ceased to question him, inquiring only _what this was called and what
+that_. And because he answered these questions also by material ideas,
+and not by any that were spiritual, they departed from him. For in the
+other life every one speaks spiritually, or by spiritual ideas, so far
+as in the world he had believed in God; and materially, so far as he
+had not believed. As an opportunity here offers, I may relate how the
+case is, in the other life, with the learned who acquire intelligence
+by their own meditation kindled by the love of knowing truths for
+the sake of truths, thus for the sake of uses apart from worldly
+considerations; and how the case is with those who acquire
+intelligence from others without any meditation of their own, as is
+the practice of those who desire to know truths merely for the purpose
+of acquiring a reputation for learning, and of thereby attaining
+honour or gain in the world, and consequently not for the sake of
+uses apart from worldly considerations. I may here relate a certain
+experience concerning men of this character. There was apperceived a
+certain sound penetrating from beneath near the left side as far as
+the left ear: I observed that there were spirits who were attempting
+to force their way there, but I could not ascertain of what character
+they were. When they had forced their way, however, they spoke with
+me, saying that they were logicians and metaphysicians, and that they
+had immersed their thoughts in such [sciences] without any other
+end than that of acquiring a reputation for learning, and thus of
+attaining to honours and wealth: they lamented that they now led a
+miserable life, because they had studied these sciences for no other
+end, and thus had not cultivated their Rational by means of them.
+Their speech was slow and muffled. In the meantime there were two
+conversing above my head, and when I asked who they were, I was told
+that one of them was of the highest distinction in the learned world,
+and it was given me to believe that he was Aristotle. Who the other
+was, was not stated. He was then let into the state in which he had
+been when he lived in the world, for every one can easily be let into
+the state of life which he had had in the world, since every state
+of his life remains with him. I was surprised to find that he applied
+himself to the right ear, and he spoke there, hoarsely, indeed, but
+still sensibly. From the purport of what he said I apperceived that he
+was of quite a different genius from those Schoolmen who first arose,
+namely, that he hatched what he wrote from his own thought, and from
+the same source produced his philosophical system, so that the terms
+which he invented, and applied to subjects of thought, were forms of
+expression by which he described interior things; also that he was
+excited to such pursuits by a delight of the affection, and by a
+desire of knowing the things that belonged to the thought and the
+understanding; and that he followed obediently whatever his spirit
+had dictated. This was the reason he applied himself to the right ear,
+differently from his followers, who are called Schoolmen, and who do
+not proceed from thought to terms, but from terms to thoughts, thus by
+a contrary way; and many of them do not even proceed to thoughts, but
+stick fast entirely in terms, their application of which, when they
+make any, being to confirm whatever they want to, and to invest
+falsities with an appearance of truth, according to their eagerness
+to persuade. Consequently for them philosophy is rather a means of
+becoming foolish than a means of becoming wise; and therefore they
+have darkness instead of light. Afterwards, I conversed with him
+on analytical science, saying that a little child, in half an hour,
+speaks more philosophically, analytically, and logically, than he
+could describe in a volume, because all things of human thought and
+consequently of human speech are analytical, and the laws thereof are
+from the spiritual world; and that he who wants to think artificially
+from terms is not unlike a dancer who wants to learn to dance from
+a knowledge of the motory fibres and muscles; if he were to keep
+his mind (_animus_) fixed on that knowledge whilst dancing, he would
+hardly be able to move a foot, and yet, without that knowledge, he
+sets in action all the motory fibres that are scattered throughout the
+whole of his body, and, in due measure, the lungs, diaphragm, sides,
+arms, neck, and all the other parts, to describe all which volumes
+would not suffice; and that the case is just like this with those who
+want to think from terms. He approved of these observations, and
+said, that if one learns to think in that way one proceeds in inverted
+order: adding, that if any one wants to be foolish, he has only to
+proceed in that way; and that one should constantly think of use, and
+from what is interior. He next showed me what idea he had had of the
+Supreme Deity. He had represented Him to himself as having a human
+face, and encompassed about the head with a radiant circle; but he now
+knew that the Lord is Himself that Man, and that the radiant circle is
+the Divine [proceeding] from Him, which inflows not only into heaven
+but also into the universe, disposing and ruling both. He added, that
+He who disposes and rules heaven, disposes and rules the universe
+also, because the one cannot be separated from the other. He also
+said, that he believed in only one God, whose attributes and qualities
+men distinguished by names as numerous as the gods they worshipped.
+A woman appeared to me who stretched out her hand, desiring to stroke
+his cheek. When I expressed my surprise at this, he said, that while
+he was in the world such a woman had often appeared to him, and as it
+were stroked his cheek, and that her hand was beautiful. The angelic
+spirits said that such women sometimes appeared to the ancients, and
+that they called them Pallases; and that the one who appeared to him
+was from spirits who, when they lived as men in the ancient times,
+were delighted with ideas and indulged in thoughts, but without
+philosophy; and as such spirits were with him, and were delighted with
+him because he thought from what is interior, they representatively
+exhibited such a woman to his view. Lastly, he told me what idea he
+had had concerning the soul or spirit of man, which he called Pneuma,
+namely, that it was an invisible vital [principle], like something
+of the ether. He said that he knew his spirit would live after death,
+since it was his interior essence, which cannot die, because it can
+think; and moreover that he could not think clearly concerning it,
+but only obscurely, because he had not possessed any knowledge on the
+subject except from himself, with a little also from the Ancients.
+Aristotle, it may be remarked, is among sane spirits in the other
+life, but many of his followers are among the foolish.
+
+39. I once saw that some spirits of our Earth were with some spirits
+of Mercury, and I heard them conversing with one another; and on this
+occasion the spirits of our Earth asked them, among other things, in
+whom they believed. They replied that they believed in God. But when
+they inquired further concerning the God in whom they believed, they
+would not say, since it is their custom not to give direct answers
+to questions. Then the spirits from the earth Mercury, in their turn,
+asked the spirits from our Earth in whom they believed. They said that
+they believed in the Lord God. The spirits of Mercury then said they
+perceived that they believed in no God, and that they had contracted
+a habit of professing belief with the mouth when yet they do not
+believe. (The spirits of Mercury have an exquisite perception, in
+consequence of their continually exploring, by means of perception,
+what others know.) The spirits of our Earth were of the number of
+those who in the world had made profession of faith according to the
+doctrine of the church, but still had not lived the life of faith;
+and those who do not live the life of faith, in the other life have
+no faith, because it is not in the man[r]. On hearing this they were
+silent, because, by an apperception then given them, they acknowledged
+that the case was so.
+
+[Footnote r: They who make profession of faith from doctrine, and
+do not live the life of faith, have no faith, nos. 3865, 7766, 7778,
+7790, 7950, 8094. And their interiors are contrary to the truths of
+faith, although in the world they do not know this, nos. 7790, 7950.]
+
+40. Certain spirits knew from heaven that a promise had once been made
+to the spirits of the earth Mercury, that they should see the Lord;
+they were, therefore, asked by the spirits about me whether they
+recollected that promise. They said that they did recollect it; but
+that they did not know whether the promise had been made in such a
+manner as to preclude all doubt respecting it. While they were thus
+talking together, the Sun of heaven appeared to them. (The Sun of
+heaven, which is the Lord, is seen only by those who are in the inmost
+or third heaven; others see the light which proceeds from it.) On
+seeing the Sun, they said that this was not the Lord God, because they
+saw no face. Meanwhile the spirits were conversing with each other,
+but I did not hear what they said. Suddenly, however, the Sun again
+appeared, and in the midst of it the Lord, encompassed with a solar
+circle: at this sight the spirits of Mercury humbled themselves
+profoundly, and bowed down. At that time also, the Lord appeared out
+of that Sun to certain spirits of our Earth, who, when they were men,
+had seen Him in the world; and they, one after another, and thus many
+in succession, confessed that it was the Lord Himself; and they made
+this confession before the whole assembly. At the same time also the
+Lord appeared out of the Sun to the spirits of the planet Jupiter, who
+declared with a clear voice, that it was He Himself whom they had seen
+on their earth when the God of the universe appeared to them[s].
+
+[Footnote s: The Lord is the Sun of heaven, from which proceeds all
+the light there, nos. 1053, 3636, 4060. And the Lord thus appears to
+those who are in His celestial kingdom, where love to Him reigns, nos.
+1521, 1529-1531, 1837, 4696. He appears at a middle height above the
+plane of the right eye, nos. 4321, 7078. Therefore in the Word the sun
+signifies the Lord as to the Divine Love, nos. 2495, 4060, 7083. The
+sun of the world does not appear to spirits and angels, but in its
+place as it were a dark something behind, opposite to the Sun of
+heaven or to the Lord, no. 9755.]
+
+41. After the Lord had appeared, some were led towards the front parts
+to the right, and as they advanced, they said that they saw a light
+much clearer and purer than they had ever seen before, and that a
+greater light could not possibly be seen: and it was then the time of
+evening here. Those who said this were many[t].
+
+[Footnote t: In the heavens there is great light, which exceeds, by
+many degrees, the noon-day light on earth, nos. 1117, 1521, 1533,
+1619-1632, 4527, 5400, 8644. All light in the heavens is from the Lord
+as the Sun there, nos. 1053, 1521, 3195, 3341, 3636, 3643, 4415, 9548,
+9684, 10809. The Divine Truth proceeding from the Divine Good of the
+Lord's Divine Love appears in the heavens as light and constitutes all
+the light there, nos. 3195, 3222, 5400, 8644, 9399, 9548, 9684. The
+light of heaven illuminates both the sight and the understanding of
+the angels, nos. 2776, 3138. Heaven being said to be in light and
+heat, signifies in wisdom and in love, nos. 3643, 9399, 9401.]
+
+42. It should be known that the sun of the world does not appear at
+all to any spirit, nor does anything of the light from it. The light
+of this sun is, to spirits and angels, like thick darkness. This sun
+remains in the perception with spirits only from their having seen it
+when they were in the world, and it is exhibited to them in idea as
+an exceedingly dark something, and situated behind at a considerable
+distance, at a little height above the plane of the head. The planets
+which are within the system of this sun appear according to a fixed
+situation in respect to the sun: Mercury appears behind, a little
+towards the right; the planet Venus to the left, a little backwards;
+the planet Mars to the left in front; the planet Jupiter likewise
+to the left in front, but at a greater distance; the planet Saturn
+directly in front, at a considerable distance; the Moon to the
+left, at a moderate height: the satellites also appear to the left
+relatively to their own planets. Such is the situation of these
+planets in the ideas of spirits and angels. Spirits also appear near
+their own planet, but apart from it. With regard to the spirits of
+Mercury in particular, they do not appear in any particular quarter,
+or at any particular distance, but they appear sometimes in front,
+sometimes to the left, sometimes a little to the back; the reason is,
+that they are allowed to wander through the universe for the purpose
+of procuring knowledges.
+
+43. Some spirits of Mercury once appeared to the left in a globe, and
+afterwards in a compact body (_volumen_) extending itself lengthwise.
+I wondered whither they were bent, whether to this or to some other
+earth, and I soon observed that they turned towards the right, and,
+rolling along, approached the earth or planet Venus towards the
+quarter in front. But when they reached it, they said that they would
+not remain there, because the inhabitants were evil; wherefore they
+turned round to the back part of that earth, and then said they would
+remain there, because the inhabitants of that part were good. While
+this was taking place I was sensible of a remarkable change in the
+brain, and of a powerful operation from it. From this it was given me
+to conclude that the spirits of Venus who are from that part of the
+planet, were in concord with the spirits of Mercury, and that they had
+relation to the memory of material things which is in concord with
+the memory of immaterial things, to which the spirits of Mercury have
+relation; hence a more powerful operation was felt from them when they
+were there.
+
+44. I was desirous of knowing what kind of face and body the men
+(_homines_) on the earth Mercury have, and whether they are like the
+men (_homines_) on our Earth. There was then exhibited before my eyes
+a woman exactly resembling those who are on that earth. Her face was
+beautiful, but smaller than that of the women of our Earth; she was
+also more slender in body, but of equal height: her head was covered
+with some linen stuff, arranged without art but still in a becoming
+manner. A man (_vir_) also was exhibited. He, too, was more slender in
+body than the men (_viri_) of our Earth; he was clothed in a
+garment of dark blue fitting closely to his body, without folds or
+protuberances anywhere. Such, I was told, were the personal form and
+clothing of the men (_homines_) of that earth. Afterwards there were
+exhibited some kinds of their oxen and cows, which did not, indeed,
+differ much from those on our Earth, except that they were smaller,
+and approximated in some measure to the stag and hind species.
+
+45. They were also questioned about the sun of the system, how it
+appears from their earth. They said that it appeared large, and larger
+there than from other earths; they said that they knew this from the
+ideas of other spirits respecting the sun. They said further that they
+enjoyed a middle temperature, neither too hot nor too cold. It was
+then given me to tell them, that it has been so provided for them by
+the Lord, in order that they might not be exposed to excessive heat
+from the circumstance of their earth being in greater proximity to the
+sun than the other earths, since heat does not arise from nearness to
+the sun, but from the height and density of the aerial atmosphere, as
+is evident from the cold on high mountains even in hot climates; also,
+that heat is varied according to the direct or oblique incidence of
+the sun's rays, as is evident from the seasons of winter and summer in
+every region. These are the particulars which it has been given me to
+know respecting the spirits and inhabitants of the earth Mercury.
+
+
+
+
+THE EARTH OR PLANET JUPITER, AND ITS SPIRITS AND INHABITANTS.
+
+
+46. It has been given me to have longer intercourse with the spirits
+and angels of the planet Jupiter than with the spirits and angels
+from the other planets; and I can therefore relate more particulars
+respecting their state of life and respecting that of the inhabitants
+of that planet. That those spirits were from that planet, was evident
+from many circumstances, and was also declared from heaven.
+
+47. The earth or planet Jupiter itself does not indeed appear to
+spirits and angels: for in the spiritual world no earth is ever
+visible to any one, but only the spirits and angels who are from it.
+Those who are from the planet Jupiter appear in front to the left, at
+some little distance, and this constantly (see above, no. 42): there
+also the planet is. The spirits of every earth are near their own
+earth, because they are from its inhabitants (for every man after
+death becomes a spirit), and because they are thus of a similar
+genius, and can be with the inhabitants and be of service to them.
+
+48. They related that in the region of their earth where they had
+lived when in the world, the multitude of human beings was as great
+as the earth could support; that it was fertile, and abounded in all
+things; that the inhabitants desired no more than sufficed for the
+necessities of life, and that what was not necessary they did not
+regard as useful; and that therefore the multitude of human beings
+was so great. They said that their principal care was the education of
+their children, and that they loved them most tenderly.
+
+49. They further related that on their earth they are distinguished
+into clans, families, and households, and that all live together with
+their own, separate from the others, and that therefore their habitual
+intercourse is confined to their kindred: also that no one ever
+desires another's goods; nor does it ever enter the mind (_animus_) of
+any one to covet any of the goods of another, much less to obtain them
+by any artifice, and still less to attack and plunder them; this they
+consider a crime contrary to human nature, and horrible. When I wanted
+to tell them that on this Earth there were wars, depredations, and
+murders, they turned away, and refused to hear. It has been told me by
+the angels that the Most Ancient inhabitants of our Earth dwelt in the
+same manner, that is to say, distinguished into clans, families, and
+households, and that all in those times were content with their own
+goods; and that it was an entirely unknown thing for one to enrich
+himself with the goods of others, or to assume dominion from the love
+of self; and that on this account the Ancient, and especially the Most
+Ancient times, were more acceptable to the Lord than those which have
+succeeded them; and that, as their state was such, innocence then
+reigned, and, together with innocence, wisdom; that every one then did
+what was good for the sake of good, and what was just for the sake of
+justice; that they did not know what it was to do what was good and
+just with a view to their own honour, or for the sake of gain; and
+that in those times they spoke nothing but what was true, and this not
+so much from truth as from good, that is, not from the Intellectual
+separate [from the Voluntary], but from the Voluntary conjoined with
+the Intellectual. Such were the Ancient times. Angels then could
+therefore have habitual intercourse with men, and carry their minds,
+almost separated from corporeal things, into heaven, and could even
+lead them about there, and show them the magnificent and goodly
+things there, and also communicate to them their own happinesses and
+delights. These times were also known to ancient writers, who called
+them the Golden, and likewise the Saturnian times. The reason why
+these times were such was, as has been stated, that men then lived
+distinguished into clans, clans into families, and families into
+households, and every household dwelt by itself; and that it then
+never entered into any one's mind (_mens_) to seize upon another's
+inheritance, and thus acquire for himself opulence and dominion: the
+love of self and the love of the world were then far away; every one
+rejoiced in his own, and not less in another's good. But in the course
+of time this scene was changed and totally reversed, when the lust
+of exercising dominion and of possessing many things invaded the
+mind (_animus_). Then the human race, for the sake of self-defence,
+gathered themselves into kingdoms and empires; and because the laws
+of charity and conscience, which had been inscribed upon the heart,
+ceased to operate, it became necessary, in order to restrain deeds of
+violence, to enact [external] laws, of which the rewards were honours
+and gain, and the punishments were the deprivation thereof. When the
+state was thus changed, heaven itself became removed from man, and
+this more and more even to the present ages, when the very existence
+of heaven and hell is unknown, yea, is even denied by some. These
+statements have been made in order to show clearly by the parallel,
+what is the state of those who are on the earth Jupiter, and whence
+they have their goodness of disposition and also their wisdom, of
+which more will be said in the following pages.
+
+50. By long-continued intercourse with the spirits of the earth
+Jupiter, it became manifest to me that they were better disposed than
+the spirits of many other earths. Their approach when they came to me,
+their stay with me, and their influx at the time, were so gentle and
+sweet as to be inexpressible. In the other life the quality of every
+spirit manifests itself by an influx, which is the communication of
+his affection. Goodness of disposition manifests itself by gentleness
+and sweetness; by gentleness, because it is afraid to hurt, and by
+sweetness, because it loves to do good. I could distinguish very
+clearly between the gentleness and sweetness of the influx proceeding
+from the good spirits of our Earth, and the gentleness and sweetness
+of the influx from the spirits of Jupiter. They said that when any
+slight disagreement arises among them, there appears as it were a thin
+dazzling white ray of light, like that of ordinary lightning or like
+the little swath which encompasses glittering and wandering stars; but
+the disagreement among them is soon adjusted. Glittering stars, which
+are at the same time wandering signify what is false; but glittering
+and fixed stars signify what is true; thus the former signify
+disagreement.[u]
+
+[Footnote u: Stars in the Word signify the knowledges of good and
+truth, consequently truths, nos. 2495, 2849, 4697. And in the other
+life truths are represented by fixed stars, but falsities by wandering
+stars, no. 1128.]
+
+51. I could distinguish the presence of the spirits of Jupiter, not
+only by the gentleness and sweetness of their approach and influx,
+but also by this circumstance, that their influx was for the most
+part into the face, which they rendered cheerful and smiling, and this
+continually as long as they were present. They said that they in the
+same way dispose the faces of the inhabitants of their earth,
+when they come to them, being desirous thus to inspire them with
+tranquillity and delightsomeness of heart. The tranquillity and
+delightsomeness with which they inspired me, sensibly filled my breast
+and heart: at the same time the longings and anxieties about the
+future, which cause disquiet and wretchedness, and agitate the mind
+with various passions, were removed. From this it could be made
+apparent to me what was the character of the life of the inhabitants
+of the earth Jupiter; for the inborn disposition of the inhabitants is
+known from the spirits, since every one carries his own life with him
+from the world, and lives it when he becomes a spirit. It was observed
+that they had a state of still more interior blessedness or happiness.
+This was observed by its being perceived that their interiors were not
+closed, but open to heaven; for the more open to heaven the interiors
+are, the more capable are they of receiving Divine good, and with it
+blessedness and interior happiness. It is quite otherwise with those
+who do not live in the order of heaven; with them the interiors are
+closed, and the exteriors are open to the world.
+
+52. It was also shown me what kind of faces the inhabitants of the
+earth Jupiter have; not that I saw the inhabitants themselves but
+spirits with faces similar to those they had when they dwelt on their
+earth. But before this was shown me, one of their angels appeared
+behind a bright white cloud, and gave permission. Two faces were then
+shown. They were like the faces of the men of our Earth, fair and
+beautiful; sincerity and modesty shone forth from them. When the
+spirits of Jupiter were with me, the faces of the men of our Earth
+appeared smaller than usual: this was owing to the circumstance that
+there inflowed from those spirits the idea they had that their own
+faces were larger. For when they live as men on their earth they
+believe that after their decease their faces will be larger, and round
+in form; and this idea, being impressed upon them, remains; and when
+they become spirits, they appear to themselves to have larger faces.
+The reason why they believe that their faces will be larger is that
+they say the face is not the body, because they see, hear, speak,
+and manifest their thoughts by means of it, and because the mind thus
+shines through it; hence they have an idea of the face as the mind in
+form. And as they know that they will become wiser after their life in
+the world, they believe that the form of the mind, that is, the face,
+will become larger. They also believe that after their decease they
+shall perceive a fire which will communicate warmth to their faces.
+This belief arises from a knowledge possessed by the wiser amongst
+them that fire, in the spiritual sense, signifies love, that love is
+the fire of life, and that from that fire the angels have life[x].
+Such of them as have lived in heavenly love also have their wish
+gratified, and feel their face grow warm, and then the interiors of
+their minds are kindled with love. For this reason the inhabitants of
+that earth frequently wash and clean their face, and also carefully
+protect it from the sun's heat. They have a covering made of the inner
+or outer bark of a tree, which is of a bluish colour, and with this
+they encircle the head, and thus protect the face. With respect to the
+faces of the men of our Earth, which they saw through my eyes[y], they
+said that they were not beautiful, and that such beauty as they had
+consisted in the outward skin, but not in the fibres from within. They
+were surprised to see that the faces of some were covered with warts
+and pustules, or otherwise disfigured, and said that no such faces
+are ever to be seen among them. Yet there were some faces that pleased
+them, such, namely, as were cheerful and smiling, and such as were
+slightly prominent about the lips.
+
+[Footnote x: Fire in the Word signifies love in both senses, nos.
+934, 4906, 5215. Sacred and heavenly fire is Divine love and every
+affection which is of that love, nos. 934, 6314, 6832. Infernal
+fire is the love of self and of the world, and every concupiscence
+belonging to those loves, nos. 934, 1861, 5071, 6314, 6832, 7575,
+10747. Love is the fire of life, and life itself is actually derived
+from that fire, nos. 4906, 5071, 6832.]
+
+[Footnote y: Spirits and angels do not see the things that are in this
+solar world but they saw through my eyes, no. 1881.]
+
+53. The reason they were pleased with the faces that were prominent
+about the lips was, that their speech is effected mostly by means of
+the face, especially by the part about the lips, and also because they
+never counterfeit, that is, never speak otherwise than they think, so
+that they do not constrain their face, but give it free play. It is
+otherwise with those who from childhood have learned to counterfeit:
+with these the face is, in consequence, constrained from within, lest
+anything of the thought should shine forth from it; nor has it free
+play from without, but is kept in readiness to relax or constrain
+itself, as cunning may dictate. The truth (_veritas_) of this may
+appear from an examination of the fibres of the lips and surrounding
+parts, for the series of the fibres there are manifold, complicated,
+and interwoven, having been created, not only for mastication
+and verbal speech, but also for expressing the ideas of the mind
+(_animus_).
+
+54. It was also shown me how the thoughts are expressed by means of
+the face. The affections which belong to the love are manifested by
+means of the countenance and its changes, and the thoughts therein by
+variations as to the forms of the interiors there: it is impossible to
+describe them further. The inhabitants of the earth Jupiter have also
+verbal speech, but not so loud as with us. The one speech aids the
+other, and life is insinuated into the verbal speech by the speech
+of the face. I have been informed by the angels that the very first
+speech in every earth was speech by the face, and from two origins
+there, the lips and the eyes. The reason this kind of speech was the
+first is, that the face was formed to effigy forth whatever a man
+thinks and wills; in consequence of which the face is also called the
+effigy and index of the mind (_animus_). Another reason is, that in
+the Most Ancient or primeval times sincerity prevailed, and no one
+cherished or wanted to cherish a thought which he was not willing
+should shine forth out of his face. In this way, also, the affections
+of the mind (_animus_), and the thoughts from them, could be exhibited
+to the life and in fulness; thus also they even appeared to the eye
+as very many things together in a form. This speech was therefore as
+superior to the speech of words as sight is to hearing, that is, as
+the sight of a landscape surpasses hearing about it and forming an
+idea of it from the verbal description. They added, that such speech
+was in agreement with the speech of the angels, with whom men in those
+times also had communication; also, that when the face speaks, that
+is, the mind through the face, angelic speech is with the man in its
+ultimate natural form, which is not the case when the mouth speaks by
+words. Every one can also comprehend that verbal speech could not have
+been used by the Most Ancient people, since the words of a language
+are not imparted immediately, but have to be invented and applied to
+objects; which it requires a course of time to effect[z]. So long as
+sincerity and rectitude prevailed among men, such speech continued;
+but as soon as the mind began to think one thing and speak another,
+which was the case when man began to love himself and not the
+neighbour, verbal speech began to increase, the face being either
+silent or deceitful. Hence the internal form of the face was changed,
+became contracted, and hardened, and began to become almost devoid
+of life; while the external form, inflamed by the fire of the love of
+self, appeared before the eyes of men as if alive; for this absence of
+life, which is underneath, does not appear before the eyes of men,
+but it appears before the eyes of the angels, since the angels see
+interior things. Such are the faces of those who think one thing and
+speak another; for simulation, hypocrisy, cunning, and deceit, which
+constitute modern prudence, produce such effects. But the case is
+different in the other life: there, no one is allowed to speak one way
+and think another. There, also, the variance is clearly perceived in
+each single expression, and when it is perceived, the spirit in whom
+there is such variance is expelled from society, and punished. He is
+afterwards by various methods brought to speak as he thinks, and to
+think as he wills, until his mind is one, and not divided. If he is
+good, he is brought to will good, and to think and speak the truth
+from good; and if he is evil, he is brought to will evil, and to think
+and speak falsity from evil. Until this is effected, a good spirit is
+not raised into heaven, nor an evil one cast into hell: and the object
+of this is, that in hell there may be nothing but evil and the falsity
+of evil, and in heaven nothing but good and the truth of good.
+
+[Footnote z: The Most Ancient people on this Earth spoke by the face
+and lips by means of internal respiration, nos. 607, 1118, 7361. The
+inhabitants of some other earths have a similar speech, nos. 4799,
+7359, 8248, 10587. Concerning the perfection and excellence of that
+speech, nos. 7360, 10587, 10708.]
+
+55. The spirits who were from that earth informed me about various
+other particulars relating to its inhabitants, as, about their gait,
+their food, and their dwellings. With respect to their gait, they do
+not walk erect like the inhabitants of this and of many other earths,
+nor do they creep like animals, but as they advance they assist
+themselves with their hands, and alternately half raise themselves
+on their feet, and at every third step they face about sideways and
+behind them, and at the same time also bend the body a little, which
+is done quickly; for among them it is [considered] unbecoming to be
+looked at by others except in the face. While walking in this manner
+they always keep the face raised as we do, so that they may look at
+the heaven as well as at the earth. They do not hold it down so as to
+look at the earth; this they call accursed. The basest among them
+do so; but if they do not get accustomed to raise the face, they are
+expelled from their society. When, however, they sit, they appear,
+like the men of our Earth, erect as to the upper part of the body, but
+they sit with the feet crossed. They are extremely cautious, not only
+when they walk, but also when they sit, not to be seen behind, but
+in the face. They also gladly desire that their face should be seen,
+because their mind appears from it, for they never show a face at
+variance with the mind, nor have they the power to do so. Those who
+are present, therefore, see clearly what is their disposition towards
+them--which indeed they do not conceal--especially whether their
+apparent friendliness is sincere or forced. These facts were made
+known to me by their spirits, and confirmed by their angels. For the
+above reason also, their spirits are seen, not like others, to walk
+erect; but almost like swimmers, to assist their progress with their
+hands, and by turns to look around.
+
+56. Those who live in their hot climates go naked, except for a
+covering about the loins; nor are they ashamed of their nakedness for
+their minds are chaste, and they love their own consorts only, and
+abhor adulteries. They were greatly surprised that the spirits of our
+Earth, on hearing of their manner of walking and of their being naked,
+should deride and think lasciviously, without in the least attending
+to their heavenly life, but only to such details. They said that this
+was a sign that they cared more for bodily and earthly things than for
+heavenly things, and that indecent thoughts occupied their minds. They
+were told that nakedness is no occasion either of shame or scandal to
+those who live in chastity, and in a state of innocence, but that it
+is to those who live in lasciviousness and immodesty.
+
+57. When the inhabitants of that earth lie in bed, they turn their
+faces forwards or into the chamber, but not backwards or towards the
+wall. This was told me by their spirits, who said that the cause was
+that they believe that they thus turn their face to the Lord, but that
+if they turn it backwards they turn it away from Him. The like has
+sometimes happened to myself when in bed, but I had not previously
+been aware of its origin.
+
+58. They take pleasure in prolonging their repasts, not so much from
+delight in feeding as from delight in conversing then. When they sit
+at table, they do not sit on chairs or benches, nor on raised seats of
+turf, nor on the grass, but on the leaves of a particular tree. They
+were not willing to say of what tree the leaves were; but when I
+guessed at several, they at last assented when I named the fig tree.
+They informed me besides, that they do not prepare their food to
+please the palate, but chiefly for the sake of use; they added that to
+them the food which is wholesome is savoury. A conversation took place
+on this subject among the spirits, and it was urged that it would be
+well for man to observe this rule, for thus he would ensure having a
+sound mind in a sound body. It is otherwise with those with whom the
+taste rules: the body hence becomes diseased, at least it becomes
+inwardly feeble, consequently so does the mind; for the mind comports
+itself according to the interior state of the recipient parts of the
+body, as sight and hearing do according to the state of the eye and
+ear; hence the folly of placing all the delight of life in luxury
+and pleasure; from this too comes dulness in such things as belong to
+thought and judgment, and acuteness in such as belong to the body and
+the world. By this man acquires the likeness of a brute animal, with
+which indeed such persons not inappropriately compare themselves.
+
+59. Their dwellings were also shown me. They are lowly dwellings
+constructed of wood; but within they are lined with bark or cork of a
+pale blue colour, and the walls and ceiling are spotted as with stars,
+to represent the heaven; for they are fond of picturing the visible
+heaven with its constellations in the interiors of their houses, the
+reason being that they believe the constellations to be the abodes
+of the angels. They have tents also, which are rounded off above
+and extended in length, spotted likewise within with stars on a blue
+ground. They retire into these in the day-time, to prevent their
+faces suffering from the heat of the sun. They bestow much care on
+the fashioning of these tents of theirs, and on keeping them clean. In
+them they also take their repasts.
+
+60. The horses of our Earth, when seen by the spirits of Jupiter,
+appeared to me smaller than usual, although they were pretty robust
+and tall; which appearance arose from the idea those spirits had
+concerning the horses on that earth. They informed me that among them
+there are also horses like ours, though much larger, but that they
+are wild or in the woods, and that when they come in sight they strike
+terror into them, although they are quite harmless; they added that
+their fear of them is innate or natural. This gave me occasion to
+think of the cause of that fear. For in the spiritual sense, a horse
+signifies the Intellectual formed from scientifics[aa]; and as they
+are afraid of cultivating the Intellectual by worldly sciences, from
+this comes an influx of fear. That they do not care for scientifics,
+which are of human erudition, will be seen in the following pages.
+
+[Footnote aa: The horse signifies the Intellectual, nos. 2760-2762,
+3217, 5321, 6125, 6400, 6534, 7024, 8146, 8148. And the "White Horse"
+in the Apocalypse denotes the understanding of the Word, no. 2760.]
+
+61. The spirits of that earth are not inclined to associate with the
+spirits of our Earth, because they differ in disposition and manners.
+They say that the spirits of our Earth are cunning, and are quick
+and clever in the contrivance of evils, and that they know and think
+little about what is good. Moreover, the spirits of the earth Jupiter
+are much wiser than the spirits of our Earth; they also say of ours
+that they talk much and think little, and that therefore they cannot
+interiorly perceive many things, and that they cannot even perceive
+what good is. They conclude from this that the men of our Earth are
+external men. It was also once permitted the evil spirits of our Earth
+to act by their wicked arts, and to infest the spirits of Jupiter who
+were with me. The latter endured them for a very long time, but
+at length confessed that they could do so no longer, and that
+they believed that there could not be worse spirits, since they so
+perverted their imagination, and also their thought, that they seemed
+to themselves as it were bound, and incapable of being extricated from
+this bondage, and set at liberty, except by Divine aid. While I read
+from the Word some passages on the subject of our Saviour's Passion,
+some European spirits uttered dreadful scandals, with the intention
+of seducing the spirits of Jupiter. Inquiry being made as to who
+they were, and what their profession in the world had been, it was
+ascertained that some of them had been preachers, and many of them
+were of those who call themselves Members of the Society of the Lord,
+or Jesuits. I remarked that these, during their life in the world, by
+their preachings on the subject of the Lord's Passion, had been able
+to move the common people to tears. I also added the cause, that in
+the world they had thought one way and spoken another, thus that they
+had entertained one sentiment in their hearts and professed another
+with their lips; but that now they are not allowed to speak thus
+deceitfully, for, on becoming spirits, they are compelled to speak
+exactly as they think. The spirits of Jupiter were exceedingly
+astonished that there could be such a variance between the interiors
+and exteriors belonging to a man, that is to say, that it should be
+possible to speak one way and think quite another way, which would
+be impossible for them. They were surprised to hear that many who
+are from our Earth even become angels, and that they are of quite a
+different heart. They had supposed that all on our Earth were like
+those [evil ones who were then present], but they were told that many
+are not of this character, and that there are also some who think from
+good, and not, like these, from evil, and that those who think from
+good become angels. In order that they might know that this was the
+case, there came from the heaven of angels from our Earth choirs, one
+after another, who glorified the Lord together with one voice, and
+with harmony[bb]. These choirs affected the spirits of Jupiter
+who were with me, with such intense delight, that they seemed to
+themselves as it were caught up into heaven. This glorification by the
+choirs lasted about one hour. The delights which they experienced from
+this were communicated to me, and I was enabled to feel them sensibly.
+They said they would relate this occurrence to those of them who were
+elsewhere.
+
+[Footnote bb: It is called a choir when many spirits speak at once
+and unanimously, concerning which see nos. 2595, 2596, 3350. In their
+speech there is harmony, concerning which see nos. 1648, 1649. By
+means of choirs in the other life an inauguration into unanimity is
+effected, no. 5182.]
+
+62. The inhabitants of the earth Jupiter place wisdom in thinking well
+and justly on all things that occur in life. This wisdom they imbibe
+from their parents from childhood, and it is successively transmitted
+to posterity, and goes on increasing from the love they have for it
+as existing with their parents. Of the sciences, such as exist on our
+Earth, they know nothing whatever, nor have they any desire to know.
+They call them shades, and compare them to clouds which come between
+[the earth and] the sun. They were led into this idea concerning
+the sciences by the conduct of some who had come from our Earth,
+who boasted in their presence that they were wise by reason of the
+sciences. The spirits from our Earth, who thus boasted, were such as
+placed wisdom in such things as are matters of the memory only, as in
+languages, especially the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, in the noteworthy
+publications of the learned world, in criticism, in bare experimental
+facts, and in terms, especially philosophical ones, and other similar
+things, not using them as means for becoming wise, but making wisdom
+to consist in those very things. Such persons, in consequence of not
+having cultivated their rational faculty by the sciences as means, in
+the other life have little perception, for they see only in terms and
+from terms, and, for those who see in this way, those things are as
+little formless masses, and as clouds before the intellectual sight
+(see above, no. 38); and those who have been conceited of their
+learning from this source perceive still less. But those who have used
+the sciences as means of invalidating and annihilating the things
+that belong to the church and to faith, have entirely destroyed their
+Intellectual, and see in the dark like owls, seeing falsity for truth
+and evil for good. The spirits of Jupiter, from intercourse with such
+persons, concluded that the sciences occasion shade and blindness; it
+was told them, however, that on this Earth the sciences are means of
+opening the intellectual sight, which is in the light of heaven; but
+because of the dominion of such things as belong to merely natural
+and sensual life, the sciences, to those [who are such], are means of
+becoming insane, that is to say, of confirming themselves in favour of
+Nature against the Divine, and in favour of the world against heaven.
+The sciences, they were further informed, are in themselves spiritual
+riches, and those who possess them are like those who possess worldly
+riches, which likewise are means of performing uses to oneself, one's
+neighbour, and one's country, and are also means of doing evil
+to them. They are, moreover, like dress, which serves for use and
+adornment and also for gratifying pride, as with those who would
+be held in honour for that alone. The spirits of the earth Jupiter
+understood this perfectly; but they were surprised that, being men,
+they should stand still in the means, and prefer to wisdom itself such
+things as only lead to it; and that they did not see, that to immerse
+the mind in these, and not raise it above them, is to becloud and
+blind it.
+
+63. A certain spirit ascending from the lower earth came to me, and
+said that he had heard the things that I had spoken to the other
+spirits, but did not understand anything of what had been said about
+spiritual life and its light. Being asked whether he desired to be
+instructed on the subject, he answered that he had not come with that
+intention, from which I could conclude that such subjects did not come
+within his comprehension. He was exceedingly stupid. It was stated by
+the angels that, when he lived a man in the world, he had been among
+the most celebrated for his learning. He was cold, as was sensibly
+felt from his breath; which was a sign that he had no spiritual, but
+merely natural light (_lumen_); consequently that by means of the
+sciences he had not opened but closed up for himself the way to the
+light (_lux_) of heaven.
+
+64. As the inhabitants of the earth Jupiter acquire intelligence
+for themselves by a different way from that followed by those of our
+Earth, and as, besides, they are of a different natural disposition
+in consequence of their life, they cannot be together long, but either
+shun them or remove them. There are spheres, which are to be called
+spiritual spheres, which continually emanate, nay, pour forth, from
+every spirit; they flow from the activity of the affections and
+the consequent thoughts, consequently from the very life[cc]. All
+consociations in the other life take place according to the spheres;
+things that are in agreement are conjoined according to the agreement,
+and things that disagree are removed according to the disagreement.
+The spirits and angels who are from the earth Jupiter have relation,
+in the Grand Man, to the IMAGINATIVE [PART] OF THOUGHT, and thus to
+an active state of the interior parts; while the spirits of our Earth
+have relation to the various functions of the exterior parts of
+the body, and when these desire to have the dominion, the active or
+imaginative [part] of thought from the interior cannot flow in. Hence
+the oppositions between the spheres of the life of the two.
+
+[Footnote cc: A spiritual sphere, which is the sphere of the life,
+flows forth and pours forth from every man, spirit, and angel, and
+encompasses them about, nos. 4464, 5179, 7454. It flows forth from the
+life of their affection and consequent thought, nos. 2489, 4464, 6206.
+In the other life consociations are effected according to the spheres,
+and so also are dissociations, nos. 6206, 9606, 9607, 10312.]
+
+65. With respect to their Divine worship, its principal feature is
+that they acknowledge our Lord as the Supreme Being who governs
+heaven and earth. Him they call the One only Lord; and because they
+acknowledge and worship Him during their life in the body, they seek
+Him after death, and find Him: He is the same with our Lord. Being
+questioned whether they knew that the One only Lord is Man, they
+replied that they all know that He is Man, because in their earth He
+has been seen by many as a Man; and that He instructs them concerning
+the truth (_veritas_), preserves them, and gives eternal life to those
+who worship Him from good. They said further, that it is revealed to
+them by Him how they ought to live, and how they ought to believe; and
+that what is revealed is handed on by the parents to the children, and
+thus the doctrine spreads to all the families, and thus to the whole
+clan that is descended from one father. They added, that it seems to
+them as if they had the doctrine written on their minds; which they
+conclude from the circumstance, that they instantly perceive and
+acknowledge as of themselves, whether what others say concerning the
+life of heaven with man is true or not. They do not know that their
+One only Lord was born a man on our Earth; they said that it does not
+concern them to know this, but only to know that He is Very Man, and
+governs the universe. When I said that on our Earth He is named the
+Christ Jesus, and that the Christ signifies the anointed or the king,
+and Jesus, the Saviour, they said that they do not worship Him as
+a king, because kingship savours of what is worldly, but that they
+worship Him as the Saviour. The spirits of our Earth having injected
+a doubt whether their One only Lord was the same with our Lord, they
+removed it by recollecting that they had seen Him in the sun, and had
+acknowledged that it was He Himself whom they had seen on their earth
+(see above, no. 40). Once also there inflowed with the spirits of
+Jupiter who were with me, a momentary doubt whether their One only
+Lord was the same as our Lord; but this doubt, which inflowed in a
+moment, was also dispelled in a moment; (it had inflowed from some
+spirits from our Earth;) and then, what surprised me, they so blushed
+with shame for having doubted on this point, though but for a moment,
+that they told me not to make it public, lest on account of it they
+should be charged with any incredulity, when yet they now knew it more
+than others. These spirits were greatly affected and rejoiced when
+they heard it declared that the One only Lord is the only Man, and
+that all derive from Him what entitles them to be called men, and,
+indeed, that they are only so far men as they are images of Him, that
+is, so far as they love Him and the neighbour, consequently so far
+as they are in good; for the good of love and of faith is the Lord's
+image.
+
+66. There were some spirits of the earth Jupiter with me while I was
+reading the seventeenth chapter of John, relating to the Lord's love
+and His glorification. On hearing the things that are written there,
+a holy influence filled them, and they acknowledged that all things
+therein were Divine. But then some spirits of our Earth, who were
+infidels, kept insinuating scandals, saying that the Lord was born an
+infant, lived a man, appeared like another man, and was crucified
+and other like things: but the spirits of the earth Jupiter paid no
+attention to those things. They said that such are their devils,
+whom they abhor; adding, that in their minds there abides absolutely
+nothing that is heavenly, but only what is earthly, which they called
+dross. They said that they had also ascertained this to be the case
+from the fact, that when they heard that on that earth they go naked,
+obscenity instantly occupied their thoughts, and that they gave no
+thought at all to their heavenly life, of which they also heard at the
+same time.
+
+67. In how clear a perception on spiritual subjects the spirits of
+Jupiter are, was made evident to me from their representation of how
+the Lord converts depraved affections into good ones. They represented
+the intellectual mind as a beautiful form, and imparted to it the
+activity of a form fit for the life of affection. This they did in a
+manner which cannot be described in words, and so skilfully that they
+were highly commended by the angels. There were present at the time
+some of the learned from our Earth, who had immersed the Intellectual
+in terms belonging to scientifics, and had written and thought much
+about form, substance, the material and the immaterial, and the like,
+without applying them to any use; these could not even comprehend that
+representation.
+
+68. On their earth the greatest care is taken to prevent any one
+falling into wrong opinions respecting the One only Lord; and if they
+observe that any begin to think wrongly respecting Him, they
+first admonish them, then deter them by threats, and at length by
+punishments. They said they had observed, that any family, into which
+any such thing had crept, is removed from amongst them, not by the
+punishment of death inflicted by their fellow-men, but by spirits
+depriving them of respiration and consequently of life, after first
+threatening them with death. For in that earth spirits speak with the
+inhabitants and chastise them if they have done evil, and also if they
+have intended to do evil; of which more will be said in subsequent
+pages. Therefore, if they think ill concerning the One only Lord, and
+do not repent, they are threatened with death. In this way the worship
+of the Lord, who to them is the Supreme Divine, is preserved on that
+earth.
+
+69. They stated that they have no holy days, but that every morning at
+sunrise, and every evening at sunset, they perform holy worship to the
+One only Lord in their tents; and that they also, after their manner,
+sing sacred songs.
+
+70. I was further informed that in that earth there are some who call
+themselves Saints, and who, under penalty of punishment in case of
+disobedience, command their servants, of whom they have great numbers,
+to address them as lords. They also forbid them to adore the Lord of
+the universe, saying that they themselves are mediatory lords, and
+that they will convey their supplications to the Lord of the universe.
+The Lord of the universe, who is our Lord, they do not call the One
+only Lord, as all the others do, but the Supreme Lord, for the reason
+that they call themselves lords. They call the sun of the world the
+face of the Supreme Lord, and believe that He has His abode there;
+wherefore they also adore the sun. The other inhabitants hold them
+in aversion, and are unwilling to have intercourse with them, both
+because they adore the sun, and because they call themselves lords,
+and are worshipped by their servants as mediatory gods. Their
+head-dress was shown me by spirits: it was a high crowned hat of a
+dark colour. In the other life such appear to the left at some height,
+where they sit like idols, and at first are worshipped by the servants
+who had formerly been with them; but these, too, afterwards hold them
+in derision. What surprised me, their faces there shine as from fire:
+this arises from their having believed themselves to be saints; yet,
+notwithstanding this fiery appearance of their faces, they are cold,
+and intensely desire to become warm. From this it is evident that the
+fire from which they shine is the fire of the love of self, and an
+_ignis fatuus_. In order to acquire warmth they seem to themselves
+to cut wood, and while cutting, under the wood appears something of a
+man, whom at the same time they try to strike. This arises from their
+attributing merit and holiness to themselves: those who do this in
+the world, in the other life seem to themselves to cut wood, as was
+likewise the case with some from our Earth, who have been spoken of
+elsewhere. To illustrate this subject, I may here adduce my experience
+concerning these:[A] "In the lower earth, under the soles of the feet,
+are also those who have placed merit in good acts and works. Many of
+them appear to themselves to cut wood. The place where they are is
+very cold, and they seem to themselves to acquire warmth by their
+labour. With these also I have spoken, and it was given me to ask them
+whether they had any desire to get out of that place: to this they
+replied, that they had not as yet merited it by their labour. But when
+this state has been accomplished they are taken out from thence.
+These [spirits] are natural, because wishing to merit salvation is not
+spiritual, for it comes from the proprium and not from the Lord; and
+besides, they prefer themselves to others, and some of them despise
+others; and if they do not receive more joy than others in the other
+life, they are indignant against the Lord; wherefore when they are
+cutting wood, it appears as if something of the Lord were under the
+wood. This arises from their indignation."[dd]
+
+[Footnote A: _Arcana_, no. 4943. See also nos. 1110, 8740.--TR.]
+
+[Footnote dd: Merit and righteousness belong to the Lord alone, nos.
+9715, 9975, 9979, 9981, 9982. Those who place merit in works, or want
+to merit heaven by the good deeds which they do, in the other life
+want to be served, and are never contented, no. 6393. They despise
+their neighbour, and are angry with the Lord Himself if they do not
+receive reward, no. 9976. What their lot in the other life is, nos.
+942, 1774, 1877, 2027. They are of those who in the lower earth appear
+to cut wood, nos. 1110, 4943.]
+
+71. It is common on that earth for spirits to speak with the
+inhabitants, and to instruct them, and also to chastise them if they
+have done evil. As many particulars on this subject have been related
+to me by their angels, I will recount them in their order. The reason
+that spirits there speak with men is, that they think much about
+heaven and the life after death, and are comparatively little
+solicitous about the life of the world; for they know that they shall
+live after their decease, and in a happy state according to the state
+of their internal man that has been formed in the world. Speaking with
+spirits and angels was common on our Earth also in ancient times, and
+for the same reason, namely, that they thought [much] of heaven and
+little of the world. But in course of time that living communication
+with heaven was closed, in proportion as man, from being internal,
+became external, or, what is the same, as he began to think much about
+the world and little about heaven, and especially when he ceased to
+believe in the existence of heaven and hell, or in the existence in
+himself of a spirit-man that lives after death. For at this day it
+is believed that the body lives from itself and not from its spirit;
+wherefore unless man now cherished the belief that he is to rise again
+with his body, he would have no belief in the resurrection.
+
+72. With reference specially to the presence of spirits with the
+inhabitants of the earth Jupiter, there are spirits who chastise,
+spirits who instruct, and spirits who govern them. The spirits who
+chastise apply themselves to the left side, and incline themselves
+towards the back; and when there, they draw out of the man's memory
+all the things that he has done or thought: this is easy for spirits
+to do, for when they come to a man they enter into all his memory[j].
+If they find he has done evil, or has thought evil, they reprove him,
+and also chastise him with pain in the joints of his feet or hands,
+or with pain about the region of the belly; this, too, spirits can do
+skilfully when it is permitted. When such spirits come to a man, they
+inspire him with a horror accompanied by fear, by which the man is
+made aware of their coming. Fear may be excited in any person by evil
+spirits on their approach, especially by those who, during their life
+in the world, had been robbers. In order that I might know how
+these spirits act when they come to a man of their own earth, it was
+permitted that such a spirit should approach me. When he was near,
+horror accompanied by fear manifestly seized hold of me; yet it was
+not inwardly that I shuddered, but outwardly, because I knew it was a
+spirit of such a character. He also came in sight, and he appeared as
+a dark cloud, in which were wandering stars; wandering stars signify
+falsities, but fixed stars signify truths. He applied himself to my
+left side towards the back; and he also began to reprove me for deeds
+and thoughts which he drew out of my memory, and on which he put
+a wrong construction; but he was checked by the angels. When he
+apperceived that he was with one who was not a man of his own earth,
+he began to speak to me, saying, that when he comes to a man, he
+knows all things in general and particular that the man has done and
+thought, and that he severely reproves him, and also chastises him
+with various pains. At yet another time such a chastising spirit came
+to me, and applied himself to my left side below the middle of the
+body, as the former spirit had done; he also wanted to punish me;
+but he, too, was restrained by the angels. He showed me, however, the
+kinds of punishments which they are permitted to inflict on the men
+of their earth, if they do evil, or harbour the intention of doing
+it. These were, besides the pain of the joints, a painful contraction
+about the middle of the belly, which is felt like compression by a
+tight belt; a deprivation of respiration at times even to suffocation;
+also a prohibition to eat anything but bread for a time; and, lastly,
+the threat of death, if they do not discontinue doing such things,
+with the deprivation, at the same time, of conjugial, parental, and
+social joy; grief on this account is then also insinuated.
+
+73. The spirits who instruct also apply themselves to their left side,
+but more in front. They, too, reprove, but mildly, and then teach
+them how they ought to live. They also appear dark, yet not, like the
+former, as clouds, but as if clothed with sackcloth. These are
+called Instructors, but the former, Chastisers When these spirits are
+present, angelic spirits are also present, sitting at the head, which
+they fill in a peculiar manner: their presence there is also perceived
+as a gentle breathing, for they fear lest their approach and influx
+should cause man to perceive the least pain or anxiety. They govern
+both the chastising and the instructing spirits; the chastisers, lest
+they treat the man more hardly than is permitted by the Lord, and
+the instructors, that they may teach the truth. While the chastising
+spirit was with me, angelic spirits were also present, and kept my
+face continually cheerful and smiling, the region about the lips
+prominent, and my mouth slightly open. This the angels easily effect
+by means of influx, when the Lord permits. They said that they induce
+such a countenance on the inhabitants of their earth, when they are
+present with them.
+
+74. If a man, after chastisement and instruction, again does evil, or
+thinks to do evil, and does not restrain himself in accordance
+with the precepts of truth, he is more severely punished when the
+chastising spirit returns; but the angelic spirits moderate the
+punishment according to the intention in the deeds, and the will in
+the thoughts. From these facts it may appear, that their angels who
+sit at the head have a kind of judicial power over man, since they
+permit, moderate, restrain, and influence. It was said, however, that
+it is not they who judge, but that the Lord alone is Judge, and that
+all things which they enjoin on the chastising and instructing spirits
+inflow into them from Him, and that it appears as if it were from
+them.
+
+75. Spirits there speak with man, but man in his turn does not speak
+with the spirits, except the words, when instructed, _that he will
+do so no more_. Nor is he allowed to tell any one that a spirit has
+spoken to him; if he does so, he is punished afterwards. Those spirits
+of Jupiter, when they were with me, at first supposed that they were
+with a man of their own earth; but when I in my turn spoke with them,
+and also when I thought of publishing what passed between us, and so
+relating it to others, then, because they were not allowed to chastise
+or instruct me, they discovered that they were with a stranger.
+
+76. There are two signs which appear to those spirits when they are
+with man (_homo_). They see an old man (_vir_) with a white face; this
+is a sign to speak only what is true, and to do only what is just.
+They also see a face in a window; this is a sign to them to depart.
+This old man has also appeared to me; and a face has also appeared in
+a window, on seeing which those spirits immediately departed from me.
+
+77. Besides the spirits who have already been mentioned, there are
+spirits who urge contrary things. They consist of those who, during
+their life in the world, had been banished from the society of others
+because they were evil. When they approach there appears as it were
+a flying fire, which descends near the face. They place themselves
+beneath at the posterior parts of the man, and from thence they speak
+towards the higher parts. They say things that are contrary to what
+the instructor-spirit teaches from the angels, namely, that men
+should not live according to instruction, but according to their own
+inclination, and in licentiousness, with other similar things. They
+generally come after the other spirits have departed; but the people
+there know who and what those spirits are, and therefore pay no
+attention to them. Still, they learn in this way what evil is, and
+thereby what good is; for by means of evil one learns what good is,
+inasmuch as the quality of good is known from its opposite. Every
+perception of a thing is according to reflection relative to its
+differences from things that are contrary in various ways and degrees.
+
+78. The chastising and instructing spirits do not come to those who
+call themselves saints and mediatory lords, and who have been treated
+of above (at no. 70), as they do to others on that earth, because
+they do not suffer themselves to be instructed and are not amended
+by discipline; they are inflexible, because they act from the love of
+self. Spirits say they know such by their coldness, and that when they
+apperceive the cold they depart from them.
+
+79. Among the spirits of Jupiter there are also some whom they call
+chimney-sweepers, because they appear in garments like those of
+chimney-sweepers, and with the face smeared with soot; who and of what
+character they are I am also permitted to describe. One such spirit
+came to me, and anxiously entreated me to intercede for him, that he
+might come into heaven. He said he did not know that he had done evil,
+only that he had rebuked the inhabitants of the earth: he added that,
+after rebuking, he had instructed them. He applied himself to my left
+side under the elbow, and spoke as if with a double voice; he could
+also excite pity. But I could only say in reply that I could not
+render him any assistance, and that this was possible for the Lord
+alone; nor could I intercede for him, because I did not know whether
+it would be of any use; but that if he were worthy he might have hope.
+He was then sent amongst some well-disposed spirits who were from
+his own earth; but they said that he could not be in their company,
+because he was not of the same character. But as he still importuned
+with intense desire to be let into heaven, he was sent into a society
+of well-disposed spirits of this Earth; but they, too, said that he
+could not be with them. In the light of heaven he was also of a black
+colour, but he said that he was not of a black, but of a murrhine
+colour. I was told that of such a character at first are the spirits
+who afterwards are received amongst those who constitute the province
+of the SEMINAL VESICLES in the Grand Man or Heaven; for in those
+vesicles the semen is collected, and is enclosed in a covering of
+suitable matter fit to preserve the prolific quality of the seed from
+being dissipated but which may be put off in the neck of the uterus,
+so that what is reserved within may be serviceable for conception, or
+the impregnation of the ovulum. Hence, also, that seminal matter has
+an endeavour, and as it were a burning desire, to put itself off, and
+leave the semen to perform its use. Something similar to this appeared
+with that spirit. He again came to me in mean raiment, and again
+said that he had an ardent desire to enter heaven, and that he now
+apperceived that he was such that he could go there. It was then given
+me to tell him that perhaps this was a sign that he would soon be
+received. The angels then told him to cast off his raiment, which,
+from the ardency of his desire, he did with a quickness that could
+scarcely be surpassed. By this was represented the character of the
+desires of those who are in the province to which the seminal vesicles
+correspond. It was said that such spirits, when prepared for heaven,
+are stripped of their own garments, and clothed with new shining
+garments, and become angels. They were likened to caterpillars, which,
+having passed through their vile state, are changed into chrysalides
+and then into butterflies, when they are given other clothing, and
+also wings of a blue or yellow, a silver or golden colour. Then, too,
+they are given the freedom to fly in the open air as in their heaven,
+to celebrate their marriages, and lay their eggs, and so provide for
+the propagation of their kind; then also there are given to them sweet
+and pleasant food which they suck from the juices and odours of the
+various flowers.
+
+80. In what precedes nothing has been said as to the character of the
+angels who are from that earth; for those already mentioned (no.
+73), who come to the men of their earth, and sit at the head, are not
+angels in their interior heaven, but are angelic spirits or angels
+in their exterior heaven. And as it has been disclosed to me what the
+character of those [interior] angels is, it is permitted me to relate
+what it has been given me to know concerning them. A certain one of
+those spirits of Jupiter, who inspire fear, approached my left side
+beneath the elbow, and spoke to me from thence. His speech was harsh,
+and his expressions were not very distinct and separate from each
+other, so that I had to consider a long time before I could gather
+the sense; and while he was speaking he inspired some degree of fear,
+admonishing me in this way to receive the angels well when they came.
+But it was given me to reply that this did not depend on me, but that
+with me all were received according to what they themselves were.
+Soon after this the angels of that earth came, and it was given me to
+perceive from their speech with me that they differed entirely from
+the angels of our Earth; for their speech was not effected by means
+of words, but by means of ideas which diffused themselves through my
+interiors from all sides: and for this reason also they had an
+influx into the face, so that the face accorded with each particular,
+beginning at the lips, and proceeding towards the circumference in
+every direction. The ideas, which were in place of verbal expressions
+were discrete from each other, but in a very small degree. Afterwards
+they spoke with me by means of ideas still less discrete, so that
+hardly any interval was perceived: in my perception it was like the
+meaning of words with those who attend only to the sense abstractedly
+from the expressions. This speech was more intelligible to me than the
+former, and it was also fuller. Like the other, it inflowed into the
+face, but the influx was more continuous according to the character of
+the speech; it did not, however, like the former, begin at the
+lips, but at the eyes. Afterwards they spoke in a manner still more
+continuous and full; and now the face could not accord by a suitable
+motion; but it was felt that the influx was into the brain, and that
+this was acted upon in like manner. Lastly, they spoke in such a
+manner that the speech fell only into the interior understanding; its
+fluency was like that of rarefied air. I was sensible of the influx
+itself, but not distinctly of the particulars. These several kinds of
+speech were circumstanced like different fluids--the first kind was
+like flowing water; the second like water of less density; the third
+like the atmosphere respectively; and the fourth like rarefied air.
+The spirit already mentioned, who was on the left side, sometimes
+interposed, chiefly admonishing me to behave modestly towards his
+angels; for there were spirits present from our Earth who suggested
+such things as gave displeasure. He said that he did not [at first]
+understand what the angels were speaking about, but that he afterwards
+did, when he had moved to my left ear. Then also his speech was not
+harsh as before, but like that of other spirits.
+
+81. I afterwards spoke with the angels respecting some of the
+remarkable things on our Earth, especially the art of printing, the
+Word, and the various doctrinals of the church from the Word; and
+I stated that the Word and the doctrinals [of the church] were
+published, and were thus learnt. They wondered exceedingly that such
+things could be made public by writing and printing.
+
+82. It was given me to see how the spirits of that earth, after having
+been prepared, are taken up into heaven, and become angels. On such
+occasions there appear chariots and shining horses as of fire, by
+which they are carried away like Elijah. The reason why chariots
+and shining horses as of fire appear, is that in this way there is
+represented that they are instructed and prepared to enter heaven; for
+chariots signify the doctrinals of the church, and shining horses, an
+enlightened understanding[ee].
+
+[Footnote ee: Chariots signify the doctrinals of the Church, nos.
+2760, 5321, 8215. Horses signify the Intellectual, nos. 2760, 2761,
+2762, 3217, 5321, 6125, 6400, 6534, 7024, 8146, 8148, 8381. The White
+Horse in the Apocalypse signifies the understanding of the Word, no.
+2760. By Elijah in the representative sense is meant the Word,
+nos. 2762, 5247. And since all the doctrine of the church and the
+understanding thereof are from the Word, Elijah is called "the
+chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof," no. 2762. On this
+account he was taken up by a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, nos.
+2762, 8029.]
+
+83. The heaven into which they are carried away appears on the right
+towards their earth, consequently separated from the heaven of the
+angels of our Earth. The angels who are in that heaven appear clothed
+in resplendent blue, spotted with little stars of gold, and this
+because they were fond of that colour in the world, and also believed
+it to be the most heavenly colour, especially because they are in that
+variety of good of love to which this colour corresponds[ff].
+
+[Footnote ff: Blue originating in red or flame corresponds to the good
+of celestial love; and blue originating in white or light (_lucidum_)
+corresponds to the good of spiritual love, no. 9868.]
+
+84. There appeared to me a bald head, but only the topmost part of it,
+which was bony. I was told that such a bald head is seen by those who
+are to die within a year, and that they then prepare themselves. They
+do not fear death there, except on account of leaving their conjugial
+consorts, their children, or their parents, for they know that they
+shall live after death, and that they do not quit life because they
+go to heaven; wherefore, they do not call death dying, but being
+heaven-made. Those on that earth who have lived in truly conjugial
+love, and have taken such care of their children as becomes parents,
+do not die of disease, but tranquilly as in sleep, and so pass from
+the world into heaven. The age of man there is generally thirty years,
+according to the years of our Earth. It is of the Lord's Providence
+that they die within such a short space of time, lest the number of
+men should increase beyond what that earth can support. And as, when
+they have completed those years, they do not suffer themselves to be
+led by spirits and angels, like those who have not yet completed them,
+spirits and angels seldom attend those who have passed that age. They
+also come to maturity sooner than on our Earth. They also contract
+marriages in the first flower of early manhood, and then their
+delights consist in loving their conjugial partners and taking care
+of their children. Other delights they indeed call delights, but
+relatively external ones.
+
+
+
+
+THE EARTH OR PLANET MARS, AND ITS SPIRITS AND INHABITANTS.
+
+
+85. Of all the spirits who come from the earths of this solar system,
+those of Mars are the best, being for the most part celestial men, not
+unlike those who were of the Most Ancient Church on this Earth[gg].
+When they are represented as to their quality, they are represented
+with the face in heaven and the body in the world of spirits; and
+those of them who are angels are represented with the face towards the
+Lord and the body in heaven.
+
+[Footnote gg: The first and Most Ancient Church on this earth was a
+celestial church, which was the chief of all, concerning which, see
+nos. 607, 895, 920, 1121, 1122, 1123, 1124, 2896, 4493, 8891, 9942,
+10545. A church is called celestial wherein love to the Lord is the
+principal thing, but spiritual wherein the principal thing is charity
+towards the neighbour, and faith, nos. 3691, 6435, 9468, 9680, 9683,
+9780.]
+
+86. In the idea of spirits and angels, the planet Mars, like the
+planets elsewhere, appears constantly in its own place, which is to
+the left in front, at some distance, in the plane of the breast, and
+thus outside of the sphere where the spirits of our Earth are. The
+spirits of one earth are separated from those of another, because the
+spirits of each earth have relation to some particular province in the
+Grand Man[f]; and are, therefore, in other and different states;
+and this diversity of state causes them to appear separate from each
+other, either to the right or to the left, at a greater or lesser
+distance[hh].
+
+[Footnote hh: Distances in the other life are real appearances, which
+are exhibited to the sight by the Lord, according to the states of the
+interiors of angels and spirits, nos. 5604, 9104, 9440, 10146.]
+
+87. Spirits from thence came to me, and applied themselves to my
+left temple, where they breathed their speech upon me, but I did not
+understand it. As to its flow it was very soft: I had never before
+perceived any softer; it was like a very gentle breeze. It breathed
+first upon the left temple, and upon the upper part of the left ear;
+the breathing proceeded thence to the left eye, and by degrees to the
+right, and flowed down afterwards, especially from the left eye,
+to the lips; and when at the lips it entered through the mouth, and
+through a way within the mouth, and, indeed, through the Eustachian
+tube, into the brain. When the breathing arrived there, I understood
+their speech, and was enabled to speak with them. When they spoke with
+me, I observed that my lips were moved, and my tongue also slightly,
+which was owing to the correspondence of interior with exterior
+speech. Exterior speech is that of articulate sound which impinges
+upon the external membrane of the ear, and it is conveyed from thence,
+by means of the small organs, membranes, and fibres, which are within
+the ear, to the brain. From these facts it was given me to know that
+the speech of the inhabitants of Mars was different from that of
+the inhabitants of our Earth, in that it is not sonorous, but almost
+tacit, insinuating itself into the interior hearing and sight by a
+shorter way; and that, being such, it was more perfect, and fuller of
+the ideas of thought, thus approaching nearer to the speech of spirits
+and angels. Among them the very affection of the speech is also
+represented in the face, and its thought in the eyes; for with them
+thought and speech, and affection and the face, act in unity. They
+account it infamous to think one thing and speak another, and to will
+one thing and show another in the face. They know not what hypocrisy
+is, nor fraudulent simulation and deceit. The same kind of speech
+prevailed amongst the Most Ancient inhabitants of our Earth, as it has
+been given me to learn by conversation with some of them in the other
+life; and to elucidate this subject I may relate what I have heard
+respecting it, as follows: "It was shown me by an influx which I
+cannot describe, what was the character of the speech which prevailed
+amongst those who were of the Most Ancient Church[gg]. It was not
+articulate, like the vocal speech of our time, but tacit, being
+effected, not by external, but by internal respiration, consequently
+it was a cogitative speech. It was given me also to apperceive the
+character of their internal respiration. It proceeded from the navel
+towards the heart, and so through the lips without sound when they
+spoke. It did not enter the ear of another by an external way, and
+strike upon what is called the drum of the ear, but by a certain
+internal way, and indeed by what at this day is called the Eustachian
+tube. It was shown me, that by such speech they could express the
+feelings of the mind (_animus_), and the ideas of thought, much
+more fully than can possibly be done by articulate sounds or audible
+expressions, which speech is likewise directed by respiration, but
+external; for there is not a vocal sound, yea, there is nothing in a
+vocal sound, which is not directed by applications of the respiration.
+But with them this was done much more perfectly, because by the
+internal respiration, which, because more interior, is also more
+perfect, and more applicable and conformable to the very ideas of
+thought; besides, [it is done] also by slight motions of the lips, and
+corresponding changes of the face; for, as they were celestial men,
+whatever they thought shone forth from their face and eyes, which were
+conformably varied, the face as to form according to the life of the
+affection, and the eyes as to light. It was quite impossible for
+them to present a countenance which was not in agreement with their
+thoughts. As their speech was effected by internal respiration, which
+is that of the human spirit itself, they could have communion with
+angels, and speak with them." The respiration of the spirits of
+Mars was also communicated to me[ii], and it was perceived that it
+proceeded from the region of the chest towards the navel, and thence
+flowed upwards through the breast, with an imperceptible breathing
+(_halitus_) towards the mouth. From these facts, and also from other
+experiential proofs, it was made evident to me that they were of a
+celestial genius, consequently, that they were not unlike those who
+belonged to the Most Ancient Church on this earth.
+
+[Footnote ii: Spirits and angels have respiration, nos. 3884, 3885,
+3891, 3893.]
+
+88. I was informed that the spirits of Mars in the Grand Man have
+relation to the medium between the Intellectual and the Voluntary,
+consequently to THOUGHT FROM AFFECTION, and the best of them to THE
+AFFECTION OF THOUGHT; hence it is that their face acts in unity
+with their thought, and that they cannot simulate in the presence of
+anyone. And as this is their relation in the Grand Man, the
+middle province, which is between the cerebrum and the cerebellum,
+corresponds to them; for with those in whom the cerebrum and the
+cerebellum are conjoined as to spiritual operations, the face acts
+in unity with the thought, so that the very affection of the thought
+shines forth from the face, and the general [character] of the thought
+from the affection, and also from certain signs that show themselves
+in the eyes. Wherefore, while they were with me, I sensibly
+apperceived a drawing back of the anterior part of the head towards
+the hinder part, thus of the cerebrum towards the cerebellum[kk].
+
+[Footnote kk: Human faces on our Earth in ancient times received
+influx from the cerebellum, and then the face acted in unity with the
+interior affections of the man; but afterwards they received influx
+from the cerebrum when man began to simulate and counterfeit by the
+face affections not his own. Concerning the changes thereby occasioned
+to the face in course of time, see nos. 4325-4328.]
+
+89. On one occasion when spirits of Mars were with me, and occupied
+the sphere of my mind, spirits from our Earth came and desired to
+intrude themselves also into that sphere; but the spirits of our
+Earth became as if insane: this was caused by their being quite out of
+harmony; for the spirits of our Earth in the Grand Man have relation
+to the external sense, and consequently these spirits were in idea
+turned towards the world and towards self, while the spirits of Mars
+were in idea turned from self to heaven and the neighbour; hence the
+contrariety. But some angelic spirits of Mars then approached, and on
+their coming the communication was taken away, and so the spirits of
+our Earth departed.
+
+90. The angelic spirits spoke with me concerning the life of the
+inhabitants on their earth; [saying] that they are not under forms of
+government, but are distinguished into greater and lesser societies,
+in which they associate themselves with such as agree in disposition,
+which they know at once by the face and speech, and in this they are
+seldom mistaken; they are then instantly friends. They also said their
+consociations are delightful, and that they converse with each other
+on what passes in their societies, and especially in heaven, for many
+of them have open communication with the angels of heaven. Those in
+their societies who begin to think wrongly, and consequently to
+will what is evil, are dissociated and left to themselves alone,
+in consequence of which they drag on a most wretched life, out of
+society, among rocks or other places, for the rest no longer trouble
+about them. Some societies try by various methods to compel such
+persons to repent; but when this is to no purpose they dissociate
+themselves from them. Thus they take precautions lest the lust of
+dominion and the lust of gain should creep in, that is, lest from the
+lust of dominion any should subject some society to themselves, and
+afterwards many others; and lest from the lust of gain any should
+deprive others of their goods. Every one there lives content with his
+own goods, and every one with his own honour, that of being reputed
+just and a lover of the neighbour. This delightful and tranquil state
+of mind (_animus_) would perish, unless those who think and will
+evil were cast out, and a prudent but severe check given to the first
+beginnings of the love of self and the love of the world. For these
+are the loves which first led to the establishment of empires and
+kingdoms, within which there are few who do not desire to acquire
+dominion, and to possess the goods of others, for there are few who do
+what is just and fair from a love of justice and fairness, still less
+who do good from charity itself, but most from fear of the law, the
+loss of life, of gain, of honour, and of reputation for the sake of
+these.
+
+91. Concerning the Divine worship of those who dwell on that earth,
+they said that they acknowledge and adore our Lord, saying that He is
+the only God, and that He governs both heaven and the universe; that
+all good is from Him, and that He leads them; also that He very often
+appears on their earth amongst them. It was then given me to tell them
+that on our Earth Christians also know that the Lord governs heaven
+and earth, according to His own words in Matthew, "_All power is given
+unto Me in heaven and on earth_" (xxviii. 18), but that they do not
+believe it as those who belong to the earth Mars do. They said also
+that there they believe that with themselves there is nothing but what
+is filthy and infernal, and that all good is of the Lord; nay, they
+added that of themselves they are devils, and that the Lord draws them
+out of hell, and continually withholds them from it. On one occasion,
+when the Lord was named, I saw that those spirits humbled themselves
+more inwardly and profoundly than can be described: for in their
+humiliation there was the thought that of themselves they were in
+hell, and that thus they were utterly unworthy to look to the Lord,
+who is the Holy itself. So profoundly were they in this thought from
+faith, that they were, as it were, outside of themselves, and in that
+thought they remained on their knees till the Lord raised them, and
+then drew them as it were out of hell. When they thus emerge from
+humiliation, they are filled with good and love, and consequently with
+joy of heart. When they humble themselves in this manner, they do not
+turn their face to the Lord, for this they dare not do then, but avert
+it. The spirits who were about me said that never had they seen such
+humiliation.
+
+92. Some spirits who were from that earth were surprised that so many
+spirits from hell were about me, and that they also spoke to me; but
+it was given me to reply that this was permitted them for the purpose
+of enabling me to know their characters, and why they are in hell, and
+that this is according to their life. It was also given me to state
+that there were several among them whom I had known when they lived in
+the world, and that some of them had then occupied stations of great
+dignity, and that then they had nothing at heart but the world; but
+that no evil spirit, even the most infernal, could possibly do me any
+injury, because I was continually protected by the Lord.
+
+93. An inhabitant of that earth was exhibited before me. He was not
+indeed an inhabitant, but was like one. His face resembled the faces
+of the inhabitants of our Earth, but the lower part of the face was
+black, not owing to a beard, which he had not, but to blackness in its
+place. This blackness extended to underneath the ears on both
+sides. The upper part of the face was ruddy, like the faces of the
+inhabitants of our Earth who are not quite fair. They said further
+that on their earth they subsist on the fruits of trees, especially
+on a certain kind of round fruit which grows out of their earth; and
+likewise on pulse. They are clothed with garments which they make of
+the fibres of the inner bark of certain trees, which fibres have such
+a consistence that they can be woven, and also cemented together by a
+kind of gum they have among them. They related further that they know
+how to make fluid fires, from which they have light during evening and
+night.
+
+94. I saw a certain flaming object, exceedingly beautiful; it was of
+various colours, crimson, and also a glowing ruby hue, and from the
+flame the colours also glowed beautifully. I also saw a hand, to which
+this flaming object adhered, at first on the back of it, afterwards
+on the palm or hollow, and from thence it played round about the hand.
+This continued for some time. Afterwards this hand with the flaming
+object was removed to a distance and where it rested there was a
+bright light (_lucidum_). In that bright light the hand disappeared;
+and the flaming object was then changed into a bird, whose colours
+were at first similar to those of the flaming object, and gleamed in
+the same manner; but these colours gradually changed, and with them
+the vigour of life in the bird. It flew about, at first about my head,
+then forwards into a kind of narrow chamber, which appeared like a
+sanctuary, and as it flew onwards its life departed, and at length it
+became stony; it was then at first of a pearly, afterwards of a dusky
+colour; but although without life, it kept on flying. While this bird
+was flying about my head, and still in the vigour of life, a spirit
+was seen rising up from below, through the region of the loins to that
+of the breast, and from there he wished to take that bird; but because
+it was so beautiful, the spirits who were about me prevented his doing
+so, for the eyes of all were fixed upon it. But this spirit who had
+risen up from below used all his power to persuade them that the
+Lord was with him, and consequently that he was acting from the Lord.
+Although the most of them did not believe this, they nevertheless no
+longer hindered him from taking the bird; but as at that moment heaven
+inflowed he was unable to retain it, but immediately, opening his
+hand, set it free. When this had taken place, the spirits who were
+around me, and who had intently watched the bird and its successive
+changes, began talking with each other about it, and they continued
+talking for a considerable time. They perceived that such a sight
+could not but signify something heavenly; they knew that what is
+flaming signifies celestial love and its affections; that a hand, to
+which the flaming object adhered, signifies life and its power; that
+changes of the colours signify the varieties of life as to wisdom
+and intelligence; that a bird has the same signification with this
+difference, however, that what is flaming signifies celestial love
+and the things that belong to celestial love, while a bird signifies
+spiritual love and the things that belong to that love; (celestial
+love is love to the Lord, and spiritual love is charity towards the
+neighbour,[note gg]); and that the changes of the colours and at the
+same time of the life in the bird, till it became stony, signify the
+successive changes of spiritual life as to intelligence. They also
+knew that the spirits who ascend from below, through the region of the
+loins to that of the breast, are in a strong persuasion that they
+are in the Lord, and consequently believe that whatever they do, even
+though it be evil, they do of the Lord's will. But nevertheless this
+did not enable them to know who were meant by that sight. At length
+they were instructed from heaven, that the inhabitants of Mars were
+meant; that their celestial love, in which many of them still are, was
+signified by the flaming object that adhered to the hand; and that the
+bird in the beginning, while it was in the beauty of its colours and
+the vigour of its life, signified their spiritual love: but that the
+bird when it had become as it were stony and devoid of life, and at
+length of a dusky colour, signified those inhabitants who have removed
+themselves from the good of love, and are in evil, and still believe,
+nevertheless, that they are in the Lord. The same thing was signified
+by the spirit who rose up and wished to take away the bird.
+
+95. The bird of stone also represented inhabitants of that earth,
+who by a strange method transmute the life of their thoughts and
+affections into almost no life, on which subject I have learned the
+following particulars. There was a certain spirit above my head who
+spoke with me, and from the tone of his voice he was apperceived to
+be as it were in a state of sleep. In this state he spoke many things,
+and with a sagacity (_prudentia_) that he could not have surpassed
+when awake. It was given me to perceive that he was a subject through
+whom angels spoke, and that in that state he apperceived [their
+speech] and produced it[ll]; for he spoke nothing but what was true;
+if anything inflowed from any other source, he indeed admitted it,
+but did not produce it. I questioned him respecting his state. He
+said that to him that state was a peaceful one, and was free from all
+solicitude respecting the future; and that at the same time he was
+performing uses by which he had communication with heaven. I was
+told that such, in the Grand Man, have relation to the _longitudinal
+sinus_, which lies in the brain between its two hemispheres, and is
+there in a tranquil state, no matter how disturbed the brain may be
+on either side. While I was in conversation with this spirit, some
+spirits introduced themselves towards the anterior part of the head
+where he was, and pressed upon him; wherefore he retired to one side,
+and gave place to them. The spirit strangers spoke with each other;
+but neither the spirits about me, nor I myself, understood what they
+said. I was informed by the angels that they were spirits from the
+earth Mars, who have the skill to speak with each other in such a way
+that the spirits present could not understand or perceive anything. I
+wondered that there could possibly be speech of this kind, since
+for all spirits there is one speech, which flows from thought,
+and consists of ideas which are heard as vocal expressions in the
+spiritual world. I was told that those spirits have a certain method
+of forming ideas, expressed by the lips and face, unintelligible to
+others, and that they at the same instant skilfully withdraw their
+thoughts, guarding particularly lest anything of the affection should
+manifest itself, because if anything of the affection were perceived,
+the thought would appear, for the thought flows from the affection,
+and as it were in it. I was further informed that such speech was
+contrived by those inhabitants of Mars,--though not by all,--who make
+heavenly life to consist in knowledges alone, and not in the life of
+love; and that when they become spirits they retain it. These are they
+who were specially signified by the bird of stone; for to produce
+a speech by alterations of the face and motions of the lips, with
+a removal of the affections and a withdrawal of the thoughts from
+others, is to deprive speech of life and make it like an image, and
+by degrees to produce the same effect on themselves. But although they
+imagine that what they speak among themselves is not understood by
+others, angelic spirits nevertheless perceive each and all of the
+things they say, the reason being that no thought can be withdrawn
+from them. This was also shown them by actual experience. I was
+thinking of the fact that the evil spirits of our Earth are not
+affected with shame when they infest others. This [thought] inflowed
+with me from some angelic spirits who perceived their speech. Those
+spirits of Mars then acknowledged that this was the subject they were
+speaking of among themselves, and they were astonished. Besides this,
+more things, both of their conversation and thought, were disclosed by
+an angelic spirit, notwithstanding all their endeavours to hide away
+their thoughts from him. Afterwards those spirits inflowed from above
+into my face. The influx was felt like fine striated rain, which was
+a sign that they were not in the affection of truth and of good, for
+this is represented by what is striated. They then spoke plainly with
+me, saying, that the inhabitants of their earth speak in the same
+way among themselves. They were then told that this is evil, as by
+so doing they block up the internals, and recede from them to the
+externals, which also they deprive of their life; and especially
+because it is not sincere to speak in this manner. For they who
+are sincere do not wish to speak or even to think anything but what
+others, yea, what all, even the whole heaven, might know. But those
+who are unwilling that others should know what they say, pass judgment
+on others, and think ill of others and well of themselves, and at
+length are led by habit so far as to think and speak ill of the
+church, and of heaven, yea, of the Lord Himself. I have been told that
+those who love knowledges, and not so much a life according to them,
+have relation, in the Grand Man, to the inner membrane of the skull;
+but that those who accustom themselves to speak without affection, and
+to draw the thought to themselves and withdraw it from others, have
+relation to that membrane, when it has become ossified, because, from
+having some spiritual life, they come at length to have none.
+
+[Footnote ll: Communications are effected by means of spirits sent
+forth from societies of spirits and angels to other societies, and
+these emissary spirits are called Subjects, nos. 4403, 5856, 5983,
+5985-5989.]
+
+96. As the bird of stone represented those also who are in knowledges
+alone, and in no life of love, and as these consequently have no
+spiritual life, therefore, by way of appendix, I may here show that
+those only have spiritual life who are in heavenly love, and thence
+in knowledges; and that a love contains in itself all the power of
+knowing (_cognitinum_) which belongs to that love. Take for example
+the animals of the earth, and also the living creatures of the heaven,
+that is, the birds. These have the knowledge (_scientia_) of all
+things that belong to their love. Their loves are, to nourish
+themselves, to dwell safely, to propagate their kind, to take care
+of their young, and, with some, to provide for the winter. They have,
+therefore, all the requisite knowledge, for this is inherent in those
+loves, and inflows into them as into its own receptacles; and this
+knowledge in some animals is such that man cannot but be amazed at it.
+Their knowledge is connate and is called instinct; but it belongs to
+the natural love in which they are. If man were in his own love, which
+is love to God and towards the neighbour, (this love is man's peculiar
+love, by which he is distinguished from beasts, and it is heavenly
+love,) he would not only be in all requisite knowledge, but likewise
+in all intelligence and wisdom; for these [qualities] would inflow
+into those loves from heaven, that is, from the Divine through
+heaven. As, however, man is not born into those loves, but into their
+contraries, that is to say, into the loves of self and of the world,
+therefore he cannot but be born in complete ignorance and want
+of knowledge But by Divine means he is brought to something of
+intelligence and wisdom, yet not actually into any, unless the loves
+of self and of the world are removed, and a way is thus opened for
+love to God and towards the neighbour. That love to God and love
+towards the neighbour have in them all intelligence and wisdom, may
+appear from those who have been in those loves in the world. These,
+when, after death, they come into heaven, know and are wise in things
+of which they previously knew nothing; yea, they there think and
+speak, like the rest of the angels, such things as the ear has not
+heard, nor the mind known, which are ineffable. The reason is, that
+those loves have the faculty of receiving such things into themselves.
+
+
+
+
+THE EARTH OR PLANET SATURN, AND ITS SPIRITS AND INHABITANTS.
+
+
+97. The spirits from that earth appear in front at a considerable
+distance, below, in the plane of the knees, where that earth itself
+is; and when the eye is opened thither, a multitude of spirits come
+into view, who are all from that earth. They are seen on this side of
+that earth, and to the right of it. It has been given me to speak with
+them also, and thereby to know of what character they are relatively
+to others. They are well-disposed, and they are modest; and as they
+esteem themselves little, therefore also in the other life they appear
+small.
+
+98. They are extremely humble in worship, for in worship they esteem
+themselves as nothing. They worship our Lord, and acknowledge Him as
+the only God. The Lord also appears to them at times under an angelic
+form, and thus as a Man, and at such times the Divine shines forth
+from His face, and affects the mind (_animus_). The inhabitants also,
+when they come of age, speak with spirits, by whom they are instructed
+concerning the Lord, and how He ought to be worshipped, and also how
+they ought to live. When any desire to lead astray the spirits who are
+from that earth, and to draw them away from faith in the Lord, or from
+humiliation towards Him, and from uprightness of life, they say they
+wish to die. On these occasions there appear in their hands small
+knives, with which they seem to desire to strike their breasts. On
+being questioned why they do so, they say that they would rather die
+than be drawn away from the Lord. The spirits of our Earth sometimes
+mock at them on this account, and assail them with reproaches for
+acting so; but their reply is, that they are well aware that they do
+not kill themselves, but that this is only an appearance flowing forth
+from the will of their mind (_animus_) rather to die than be drawn
+away from the worship of the Lord.
+
+99. They said that sometimes spirits from our Earth come to them and
+ask them what God they worship, their answer to whom is, that they are
+insane, and that there can be no greater insanity than to ask what
+God any one worships, when yet there is but one God for all in the
+universe; and that still more insane are they in not saying that the
+Lord is that One only God, and that He governs the whole heaven, and
+consequently the whole world, since He who governs heaven must also
+govern the world, because the world is governed by means of heaven.
+
+100. They said that on their earth there are some who call the
+nocturnal light (_lumen_), which is great, the Lord, but that these
+are separated from the rest, and are not tolerated by them. That
+nocturnal light (_lumen_) comes from the great ring which encircles
+that earth at a distance, and from the moons which are called the
+satellites of Saturn.
+
+101. They related that another kind of spirits, who go in troops,
+frequently come to them, desiring to learn how things are with them,
+and that by various methods they elicit from them whatever they know.
+They said of these spirits, that they are not insane, except in this
+particular, that they desire to know so much for no other use than
+that simply of knowing. They were afterwards instructed that these
+spirits are from the planet Mercury, that is, from the earth nearest
+the sun, and that they are delighted with knowledges alone, and not so
+much with the uses from them.
+
+102. The inhabitants and spirits of the planet Saturn have relation,
+in the Grand Man, to the MIDDLE SENSE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL AND THE
+NATURAL MAN, but to that which recedes from the natural and accedes
+to the spiritual. Hence it is that those spirits appear to be carried
+away or caught up into heaven, and soon afterwards let down again; for
+whatever belongs to spiritual sense is in heaven, but whatever belongs
+to natural sense is beneath heaven. Inasmuch as the spirits of our
+Earth, in the Grand Man, have relation to natural and corporeal
+sense, it has been given me to know from manifest experience how the
+spiritual and the natural man, when the latter is not in faith and
+charity, fight and contend with each other. Some spirits of the earth
+Saturn came into view from afar, and then a living communication
+was opened between them and spirits of our Earth who were of this
+character. These latter, on thus perceiving the spirits of Saturn,
+became as if insane, and began to infest them, infusing unworthy
+ideas concerning faith, and also concerning the Lord. While uttering
+invective and abuse, they also cast themselves into the midst of them,
+and, from the insanity in which they were, endeavoured to do them
+injury. The spirits of Saturn, however, were not at all afraid,
+because they were secure and in tranquillity; but those spirits of our
+Earth, when in the midst of them, began to be tortured, and to breathe
+with difficulty, and so rushed out, one in this direction, another in
+that, and disappeared. Those who were present apperceived from this
+what is the character of the natural man, separate from the spiritual,
+when he comes into a spiritual sphere, namely, that he is insane;
+for the natural man separate from the spiritual is wise only from the
+world, and not at all from heaven; and he who is wise only from the
+world, believes nothing but what the senses apprehend, and what he
+believes he believes from the fallacies of the senses, which, unless
+they are removed by the influx from the spiritual world, produce
+falsities. Hence it is that spiritual things are nothing to him,
+insomuch that he can hardly bear to hear the word spiritual mentioned;
+wherefore such become insane when they are kept in a spiritual sphere.
+It is different while they live in the world; then they either think
+naturally about spiritual things, or avert their ears, that is, hear
+and do not attend. It was also manifest from this experience, that
+the natural man cannot introduce himself into the spiritual, that is,
+ascend; but that, when man is in faith, and thus in spiritual life,
+the spiritual man inflows into the natural, and thinks therein; for
+there is spiritual influx, that is, influx from the spiritual world
+into the natural, but not contrariwise[mm].
+
+[Footnote mm: There is spiritual influx, and not physical or natural
+influx, consequently influx is from the spiritual world into the
+natural, and not from the natural into the spiritual, nos. 3219,
+5119, 5259, 5427, 5428, 5477, 6322. It appears as if influx were from
+externals into man's internals, but this is a fallacy, no. 3721.]
+
+103. Furthermore, the spirits of that earth gave me information
+concerning the inhabitants, the nature of their consociations and
+other particulars. They said that they live divided into families,
+every family apart from the others; thus, a man (_vir_) and wife
+with their children; and that these, when they unite in marriage,
+are separated from the house of the parents, and have no further care
+about it; wherefore the spirits from that earth appear in pairs. That
+they are little solicitous about food and raiment; that they live on
+the fruits and pulse which their earth produces; and that they are
+lightly clothed, being girt with a coarse skin or coat, which keeps
+out the cold. Further, that all on that earth know that they shall
+live after death; and that on this account they have no care for their
+body, except so far as is necessary for the sake of the life which
+they say is to endure and to serve the Lord; that for this reason also
+they do not bury the bodies of the dead, but cast them away, and cover
+them with branches of trees from the forest.
+
+104. Being questioned concerning that great belt which appears from
+our Earth to rise above the horizon of that planet, and to vary its
+positions, they said, that it does not appear to them as a belt, but
+only as a snowy something in the sky in various directions.
+
+
+
+
+THE EARTH OR PLANET VENUS, AND ITS SPIRITS AND INHABITANTS.
+
+
+105. The planet Venus, in the idea of spirits and angels, appears to
+the left a little behind, at some distance from our Earth. It is said,
+in the idea of spirits, because to no spirit does the sun of this
+system, or any planet, appear; but spirits have only an idea that they
+exist. In consequence of this bare idea, the sun of this system is
+exhibited behind as a very dark something, and the planets not moving
+as in the system, but remaining constantly in their places (see above,
+no. 42).
+
+106. In the planet Venus there are two kinds of men, of contrary
+dispositions; the first mild and humane, the second savage and almost
+brutal. Those who are mild and humane appear on the other side of the
+earth, those who are savage and almost brutal appear on the side of
+it looking this way. But it should be known that they appear
+thus according to the states of their life, for the state of life
+determines every appearance of space and of distance there.
+
+107. Some of those who appear on the other side of the planet, and
+who are mild and humane, came to me, and were presented to my sight
+overhead, and I spoke with them on various subjects. Amongst other
+things, they said that while they were in the world they acknowledged,
+and now still more acknowledge, our Lord as their One only God. They
+added that on their earth they had seen Him, and they also represented
+how they had seen Him. These spirits, in the Grand Man, have relation
+to _the memory of material things, agreeing with the memory of
+immaterial things_, to which the spirits of Mercury have relation:
+wherefore the spirits of Mercury have the fullest agreement with these
+spirits of Venus; therefore, when they were together, I was sensible
+from their influx of a remarkable change, and a powerful operation in
+my brain (see above, no. 43).
+
+108. I did not, however, speak with those spirits who are on the side
+that looks this way, and who are savage and almost brutal; but the
+angels informed me of their character, and the origin of their so
+brutal nature: it is this; they are greatly delighted with robbery,
+and more especially with eating the prey. The delight they have
+in thinking about eating the prey was communicated to me, and was
+apperceived to be exceedingly great. That there have also been
+inhabitants of a like brutal nature, on our Earth, appears from the
+histories of various nations; also from the inhabitants of the land of
+Canaan (1 Sam. xxx. 16); and likewise from the Jewish and Israelitish
+nation even in the time of David, in that they made yearly excursions,
+and plundered the nations, and rejoiced in feasting on the booty. I
+was informed, further, that the greater part of those inhabitants are
+giants, and that the men of our Earth reach only to their navel; also,
+that they are stupid, not seeking to know anything about heaven or
+eternal life, their only care being about their land and their cattle.
+
+109. As they are of this character, even when they come into the other
+life, they are greatly infested there by evils and falsities. Their
+hells appear near the earth, and do not communicate with the hells
+of the evil of our Earth, because they are of an entirely different
+genius and disposition; hence also their evils and falsities are of an
+entirely different kind.
+
+110. But those of them who are such that they can be saved, are in
+places of vastation, and are there reduced to the last degree of
+despair; for evils and falsities of this kind cannot otherwise be
+subdued and removed. When they are in the state of despair, they cry
+out that they are beasts, that they are abominations, that they are
+hatreds, and thus that they are damned. Some of them, when in such a
+state, even cry out against heaven; but for this they are forgiven,
+because it proceeds from despair. The Lord restrains them from
+indulging in vituperation beyond fixed limits. When they have passed
+through extreme suffering, the corporeal [principles] with them being
+then as it were dead, they are finally saved. It was also said of them
+that, during their life on their earth, they had believed in a certain
+supreme Creator without a Mediator; but when they are saved, they are
+also instructed that the Lord is the only God, Saviour, and Mediator.
+I have seen some of them, after they had passed through extreme
+suffering, taken up into heaven; and when they were received there, I
+have apperceived such a tenderness of joy from them as drew tears from
+my eyes.
+
+
+
+
+THE SPIRITS AND INHABITANTS OF THE MOON.
+
+
+111. Some spirits appeared overhead, and voices like thunders were
+heard thence; for their voices thundered forth just as thunders do
+from the clouds after lightnings. I supposed that there was an immense
+multitude of spirits, who had acquired the art of uttering their
+voices with such a sound. The more simple spirits who were with me
+laughed at them, at which I greatly marvelled. The cause of their
+laughter was soon disclosed, and it was, that the spirits who
+thundered were not many, but few, and were also small as children, and
+that on former occasions they had terrified them by such sounds, and
+yet were quite unable to do them the least harm. In order that I might
+know their character, some of them let themselves down from on high,
+where they were thundering; and, strange to say, one carried another
+on his back, and the two thus approached me. Their faces appeared not
+unhandsome, but longer than those of other spirits. In stature they
+were like boys of seven years old, but of more robust frame; so that
+they were dwarfs. I was told by the angels that they were from the
+Moon. The one who had been carried by the other came to me, applying
+himself to my left side under the elbow, and from thence he spoke,
+saying, that when they utter their voice they thunder in this manner;
+and that by so doing they strike with terror the spirits who would
+do them harm, and put some to flight, so that they go safely wherever
+they please. In order that I might know for certain that the sound
+they make was of this kind, he retired from me to some others, but not
+quite out of sight, and thundered in like manner. They showed to me,
+moreover, that their voice, being sent forth from the abdomen after
+the manner of an eructation, thus resounded like thunder. It was
+perceived that this arose from the circumstance, that the inhabitants
+of the Moon do not, like the inhabitants of other earths, speak from
+the lungs, but from the abdomen, and thus from some collection of air
+therein; the reason of which is, that the Moon is not surrounded with
+an atmosphere of the same kind as that of other earths. I was informed
+that the spirits of the Moon, in the Grand Man, have relation to the
+ensiform or xiphoid cartilage to which the ribs are attached in
+front, and from which descends the _linea alba_, which is the point of
+attachment of the abdominal muscle.
+
+112. It is known to spirits and angels, that there are inhabitants
+even in the Moon, and likewise in the moons or satellites which are
+about the earth Jupiter and the earth Saturn. Even those who have not
+seen spirits who are from them, and spoken with them, entertain
+no doubt that there are human beings upon them, for they, too, are
+earths, and where there is an earth, there is man; for man is the end
+for the sake of which an earth exists, and nothing has been made by
+the Supreme Creator without an end. It may be evident to anyone who
+thinks from reason in any degree enlightened that the end of creation
+is the human race, in order that there may exist a heaven from it.
+
+
+
+
+THE REASONS WHY THE LORD WILLED TO BE BORN ON OUR EARTH, AND NOT ON
+ANY OTHER
+
+
+113. There are several reasons, about which I have received
+information from heaven, why it pleased the Lord to be born, and to
+assume the Human, on our Earth, and not on any other. THE PRINCIPAL
+REASON _was for the sake of the Word, that it might be written on our
+Earth; and when written might afterwards be published throughout the
+whole Earth; and that, once published, it might be preserved for all
+posterity; and that thus it might be made manifest, even to all in the
+other life, that God did become Man_.
+
+114. _That the principal reason was for the sake of the Word_, is
+because the Word is the Divine Truth itself, which teaches man that
+there is a God, that there is a heaven and a hell, that there is a
+life after death; and which teaches, besides, how man ought to live
+and believe in order that he may come into heaven, and thus may
+be happy to eternity. Without revelation, and thus, on this Earth,
+without the Word, all these things would have been entirely unknown;
+and yet man has been so created, that as to his interiors he cannot
+die[nn].
+
+[Footnote nn: By natural light (_lumen_) alone, nothing can be known
+concerning the Lord, heaven and hell, the life of man after death,
+and the Divine truths, by means of which man has spiritual and eternal
+life, nos. 8944, 10318-10320. This may appear from the consideration
+that many, and amongst them the learned, do not believe these
+things, although they are born where the Word is, and where there is
+instruction by means of the Word concerning them, no. 10319. Therefore
+it was necessary that there should be a revelation from heaven,
+because man was born for heaven, no. 1775.]
+
+115. _That the Word might be written on our Earth_, is because the
+art of writing has existed here from the most ancient time, first
+on tablets, next on parchment, afterwards on paper, and lastly
+publication by printing. This was provided by the Lord for the sake of
+the Word.
+
+116. _That the Word might afterwards be published throughout the
+whole of this Earth_, is because here there is an intercourse of all
+nations, not only by journeys on land, but also by navigation to all
+parts of the entire globe; hence the Word, after it had once been
+written, could be conveyed from one nation to another, and be taught
+everywhere.
+
+117. _That the Word, after it had once been written, might be
+preserved for all posterity_, consequently for thousands and thousands
+of years, and that it has also been so preserved, is known.
+
+118. _That thus it might he made manifest that God has become man_;
+for this is the first and most essential purpose for which the Word
+was given; since no one can believe in a God, and love a God, whom he
+cannot comprehend under some form; wherefore, they who acknowledge an
+invisible and thus incomprehensible [principle], sink in thought into
+nature, and consequently believe in no God. Wherefore, it pleased the
+Lord to be born on this Earth, and to make this manifest through
+the Word, so that it might not only be made known on this globe, but
+_might also by this means be made manifest to spirits and angels from
+other earths, and likewise to the gentiles from our own[oo]_.
+
+[Footnote oo: The gentiles in the other life are instructed by angels,
+and they who have lived well according to their religionism receive
+the truths of faith and acknowledge the Lord, nos. 2049, 2595, 2598,
+2600-2603, 2861, 2863, 3263.]
+
+119. It should be known that the Word on our Earth, which was given
+by the Lord through heaven, effects the union of heaven and the world,
+for which end there is a correspondence of all things in the letter
+of the Word with the Divine things in heaven; and that the Word in
+its supreme and inmost sense treats of the Lord, of His kingdom in the
+heavens and on earth, and of love and faith from Him and towards Him,
+consequently of life from Him and in Him. Such things are exhibited
+to the angels in heaven when the Word of our Earth is read and
+preached[pp].
+
+[Footnote pp: The Word is understood by the angels in the heavens in
+a different manner from what it is understood by men on Earth, and
+the internal or spiritual sense is for the angels, but the external or
+natural sense for men, nos. 1769-1772, 1887, 2143, 2333, 2395, 2540,
+2541, 2545, 2551. The Word is what unites heaven and earth, nos. 2310,
+2495, 9212, 9216, 9357, 10375. The Word, therefore, was written by
+strict correspondences, nos. 1404, 1408, 1409, 1540, 1619, 1659, 1709,
+1783, 8615, 10687. In the inmost sense of the Word the Lord alone and
+His kingdom are treated of, nos. 1873, 2249, 2523, 7014, 9357.]
+
+120. In every other earth, Divine Truth is manifested by word of mouth
+through spirits and angels, as was stated in the foregoing pages, in
+treating of the inhabitants of the earths in this solar system. But
+this takes place within families; for in most earths the human race
+dwell distinct according to families; wherefore, Divine Truth thus
+revealed through spirits and angels is not conveyed far beyond the
+families, and unless a new revelation constantly succeeds, it is
+either perverted, or perishes. It is otherwise on our Earth, where the
+Divine Truth, which is the Word, remains in its integrity for ever.
+
+121. It should be known that the Lord acknowledges and receives all,
+from whatever earth they may be, who acknowledge and worship God under
+the Human Form, since God under the Human Form is the Lord: and as
+the Lord appears to the inhabitants in the earths in an angelic form,
+which is the Human Form, therefore, when the spirits and angels from
+these earths hear from the spirits and angels of our Earth that God is
+actually Man, they receive that Word, acknowledge it, and rejoice that
+it is so.
+
+122. To the reasons that have been adduced above, may be added, that
+the inhabitants and spirits of our Earth, in the Grand Man, have
+relation to natural and external sense; and natural and external sense
+is the ultimate in which the interiors of life close, and on which
+they rest, as on their common [basis]. The case is the same with the
+Divine Truth in the letter, which is called the Word, and which for
+this reason also was given on this Earth, and not on any other[qq].
+And as the Lord is the Word, and the First and Last of it, therefore,
+in order that all things might exist according to order. He also
+willed to be born on this Earth, and to become the Word, according to
+these words in John, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
+with God, and God was the Word. The same was in the beginning with
+God. All things were made through It, and without It was not anything
+made that was made.... _And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among
+us, and we saw Its glory the glory as of the Only-begotten of the
+Father_.... No one hath seen God at any time; the Only-begotten Son,
+Who is in the bosom of the Father, Himself hath manifested Him"
+(i. 1-3, 14, 18). The Word denotes the Lord as to the Divine Truth,
+consequently the Divine Truth from the Lord[rr]. But this is an
+arcanum which enters into the understanding of only a few.
+
+[Footnote qq: The Word in the sense of the letter is natural, no.
+8783; by reason that what is natural is the ultimate, in which
+spiritual and celestial things close, and on which they subsist as on
+their foundation, and that otherwise the internal or spiritual sense
+of the Word without an external or natural sense would be as a house
+without a foundation, nos. 9430, 9433, 9824, 10044, 10436.]
+
+[Footnote rr: The Word is the Lord as to the Divine Truth,
+consequently the Divine Truth from the Lord, nos. 2859, 4692, 5075,
+9987. Through the Divine Truth all things were created and made, nos.
+2803, 2894, 5272, 7835.]
+
+
+
+
+EARTHS IN THE STARRY HEAVEN.
+
+
+123. Those who are in heaven are able to speak and converse not only
+with those angels and spirits who are from the earths in our solar
+system, but also with those who are from other earths in the universe
+beyond this system; and not only with the spirits and angels there,
+but also with the inhabitants themselves, only, however, with those
+whose interiors have been opened, so that they are able to hear those
+who speak from heaven. The same thing is possible for a man to whom
+it has been given by the Lord to speak with spirits and angels, during
+his life in the world; for a man as to his interiors is a spirit, the
+body which he carries about in the world being serviceable to him only
+for performing functions in this natural or terrestrial sphere, which
+is the ultimate or last sphere. But to no one is it given to speak
+as a spirit with angels and spirits, unless he be of such a character
+that he can be consociated with angels as to faith and love. Neither
+can he be consociated with them, unless his faith and love are
+directed to the Lord; for man is conjoined to the Lord by means of
+faith in Him and love to Him, that is, by means of truths of doctrine
+and goods of life from Him; and when he has been conjoined [with the
+Lord], he is secure from the assaults of evil spirits from hell. With
+others the interiors cannot be opened to such an extent, since they
+are not in the Lord. This is the reason why there are few at this
+day to whom it is given to speak and converse with angels; a manifest
+proof of which is, that at the present day it is scarcely believed
+that spirits and angels exist, and still less that they are present
+with every man, and that through them man has connection with heaven,
+and, through heaven, with the Lord; and that it is still less believed
+that a man, when he dies as to the body, lives a spirit, and in the
+human form as before.
+
+124. Since, with many in the church at the present day, there is no
+faith in a life after death, and scarcely any faith concerning
+heaven, nor concerning the Lord as being the God of heaven and earth,
+therefore the interiors that are of my spirit have been opened by the
+Lord, so that, while I am in the body, I might at the same time be
+with angels in heaven, and not only speak with them, but see the
+stupendous things there, and describe the same, lest possibly it might
+hereafter be said, Who has come to us from heaven, and told us of its
+existence, and of the things that are there? But I know that those
+who hitherto have at heart denied heaven and hell, and the life after
+death, will still persist in confirming themselves against them, and
+in denying them; for it is easier to make a raven white than to make
+those believe who have once at heart rejected faith; the reason is,
+that they always think about such matters from a negative, and not
+from an affirmative, standpoint. Nevertheless, let those facts that
+have already been stated, and that yet remain to be stated, concerning
+angels and spirits, be for those few who are in faith. In order that
+others also may be led to some degree of acknowledgment, it has been
+granted me to relate such things as delight and allure the man who is
+desirous of acquiring knowledge: of this character are the things that
+shall now be related concerning the earths in the starry heaven.
+
+125. He who is not acquainted with the arcana of heaven, cannot
+believe that a man can see earths that are so far distant, and give
+any account of them from sensuous experience. But let him know that
+the spaces and distances, and therefore the progressions, which exist
+in the natural world, in their origin and first cause are changes
+of the state of the interiors, and that with angels and spirits they
+appear according to these changes[ss]; and that through changes of
+state they may be apparently translated from one place to another, and
+from one earth to another, even to earths which are at the end of
+the universe: so likewise may man as to his spirit, his body still
+remaining in its own place. This has been the case with me, since, by
+the Lord's Divine mercy, it has been given to me to speak with spirits
+as a spirit, and at the same time with men as a man. That a man, as to
+his spirit, can be translated in this manner, is inconceivable to
+the sensual man, since he is in space and in time, and measures his
+progressions according to them.
+
+[Footnote ss: Motions, progressions, and changes of place, in the
+other life, are changes of the state of the interiors of life, and
+nevertheless it really appears to spirits and angels as if they
+actually existed, nos. 1273-1277, 1377, 3356, 5606, 10734.]
+
+126. That there are many systems, may appear to every one from the
+fact that so many stars appear in the universe; and it is known in the
+learned world that every star is like a sun in its own place, for it
+remains fixed as the sun of our Earth does in its place; and that it
+is the distance that makes it appear in so small a form as a star;
+consequently, that, like the sun of our system, each star has planets
+around it, which are earths; and that the reason why these do not
+appear before our eyes is on account of their immense distance, and
+because only the light from their own star reaches us, which light
+cannot be again reflected from the planets so far as to reach us. To
+what other purpose could so great a heaven with so many constellations
+be intended? For the end of the creation of the universe is man, that
+from man there may be an angelic heaven; but what would a human
+race, and from it an angelic heaven, from one single earth, be for
+an Infinite Creator, for whom a thousand, yea tens of thousands of
+earths, would not suffice? It has been calculated that, supposing
+there were in the universe a million earths, and on every earth three
+hundred million men, and two hundred generations within six thousand
+years, and that to every man or spirit there were to be allotted a
+space of three cubic ells, the sum of that great number of men or
+spirits would not occupy a space equal to a thousandth part of this
+Earth, consequently hardly the space occupied by one of the satellites
+of the planet Jupiter or Saturn: which would be a space in the
+universe so small as to be scarcely discernible; for a satellite [of
+Jupiter or Saturn] is scarcely visible to the naked eye. What would
+this be for the Creator of the universe, for whom the whole universe,
+even if it were completely filled, would not be enough, for He is
+Infinite. In conversing with the angels on this subject, they have
+told me that they have a similar idea of the fewness of the human race
+relatively to the infinity of the Creator; but that, nevertheless,
+they do not think from spaces, but from states, and that according
+to their idea, earths numbering as many myriads as could ever be
+conceived in thought would still be as absolutely nothing to the Lord.
+The earths in the starry heaven, however, shall now be treated of in
+what follows from real experience; from which it will likewise be made
+manifest how the translations to these earths were effected as to my
+spirit, whilst my body remained in its own place.
+
+
+
+
+THE FIRST EARTH IN THE STARRY HEAVEN, AND ITS SPIRITS AND INHABITANTS:
+FROM THINGS HEARD AND SEEN.
+
+
+127. I was led by the Lord by means of angels to a certain earth
+in the starry heaven, where it was given me to gaze upon the earth
+itself, yet not to speak with the inhabitants of it, but with spirits
+who had come from it. All the inhabitants or men of every earth, on
+the termination of their life in the world, become spirits, and remain
+near their own earth. From them, however, information is obtained
+concerning their earth and the state of its inhabitants; for men,
+when they quit the body, carry with them all their former life and all
+their memory[tt]. Being led to earths in the universe does not mean
+being led and translated thither as to the body, but as to the spirit;
+and the spirit is led through variations of the state of the
+inner life, which appear to it as progressions through spaces[ss].
+Approaches, also, are effected according to the agreements or
+likenesses of the states of life; for agreement or likeness of life
+conjoins, and disagreement and unlikeness disjoin. From this it may
+appear how translation as to the spirit is effected, and how it is
+made to approach distant regions, while the man, nevertheless, remains
+in his own place. But to lead a spirit outside of his own globe
+through variations of the state of his interiors, and to cause the
+variations to proceed successively until a state is reached which
+agrees or coincides with the state of those to whom he is being led,
+is in the power of the Lord alone; for there is needed a continual
+direction and foresight from first to last, both on the journey
+thither, and on the return journey, especially when this is to be
+effected with a man who is still as to the body in the world of
+nature, and thereby in space. That this has actually been effected,
+those who are in corporeal sensual things, and who think from them,
+cannot be induced to believe. The reason is that the corporeal sensual
+[faculties] cannot conceive of progressions apart from spaces. But,
+nevertheless, those who think from the Sensual of their spirit, that
+has in some degree been removed or withdrawn from the Sensual of the
+body, thus, who think interiorly in themselves, may be induced to
+believe and comprehend it, since in the idea of interior thought there
+is neither space nor time, but instead of them there are those things
+from which spaces and times proceed. Those things, therefore, that
+follow, concerning the earths in the starry heaven, are for the use
+of the latter, and not for the former, unless they are of such a
+character as to suffer themselves to be instructed.
+
+[Footnote tt: Man after death has with him the memory of all his
+concerns in the world, nos. 2476-2486.]
+
+128. In a state of wakefulness, I was led as to the spirit by the Lord
+through angels to a certain earth in the universe, accompanied by some
+spirits from this globe. The progression took place towards the right,
+and lasted for two hours. Near the boundary of our solar system, there
+appeared first a whitish but dense cloud, and after it a fiery smoke
+ascending from a great gulf: this was an immense chasm, separating our
+solar system on that side from certain systems of the starry heaven.
+The fiery smoke appeared over a considerable distance. I was conveyed
+across the midst of it, and then there appeared beneath in that gulf
+or chasm very many men, who were spirits (for all spirits appear in
+the human form, and are actually men). I also heard them talking with
+each other; but whence they were, or of what character, it was not
+given me to know. One of them, however, told me that they were guards
+to prevent spirits passing without permission from this into any other
+system in the universe. That this was the case, was also confirmed;
+for when some spirits who were in the company, and who had not
+received permission to pass, came to that great interstice, they began
+to cry out wildly that they were perishing, for they were like persons
+struggling in the agony of death; wherefore they stopped on this side
+of the chasm, and could not be conveyed any further; for the fiery
+smoke which exhaled from the chasm attacked them, and tortured them in
+this manner.
+
+129. After I had been translated across that great chasm, I at length
+reached a place where I stopped; and then some spirits appeared to me
+above, and it was given me to speak with them. From their speech, and
+from their peculiar manner of apperceiving things and explaining
+them, I discerned clearly that they were from another earth; for they
+differed altogether from the spirits of our solar system. They also
+apperceived from my speech that I had come from a great distance.
+
+130. After we had conversed for awhile on various subjects, I asked
+them what God they worshipped. They said they worshipped some angel,
+who appears to them as a Divine man, for he is resplendent with light;
+and that he instructs them and enables them to apperceive what they
+ought to do. They said further that they knew that the Most High God
+is in the sun of the angelic heaven, and that He appears to their
+angel and not to themselves; and that He is too great for them to dare
+to adore Him. The angel whom they worshipped was an angelic society,
+to which it has been given by the Lord to preside over them, and to
+teach them the way of what is just and right; therefore they have
+light from a certain flame, which appears like a little torch,
+somewhat fiery and yellow. The reason of this originates in their not
+adoring the Lord; therefore they do not receive light from the sun
+of the angelic heaven, but from the angelic society; for an angelic
+society, when permitted by the Lord, can exhibit such a light to
+spirits who are in a lower region. I also saw that angelic society,
+which was high above them; and I also saw the flame there whence they
+had light.
+
+131. In other respects they were modest, rather simple, but still
+they thought well enough. The quality of their Intellectual could be
+inferred from the light which prevailed among them; for the intellect
+is according to the reception of the light which is in the heavens;
+since it is the Divine Truth proceeding from the Lord as a sun, that
+shines there, and enables the angels not only to see but also to
+understand[uu].
+
+[Footnote uu: There is much light in the heavens, nos. 1117, 1521,
+1522, 1533, 1619-1632, 4527, 5400, 8644. All light in the heavens is
+from the Lord as the Sun there, nos. 1053, 1521, 3195, 3341, 3636,
+4415, 9548, 9684, 10809. The Divine Truth proceeding from the Lord
+appears in the heavens as light, nos. 3195, 3222, 5400, 8644,
+9399, 9548, 9684. That light illuminates both the sight and the
+understanding of angels and spirits, nos. 2776, 3138. The light of
+heaven also illuminates the understanding of man, nos. 1524, 3138,
+3167, 4408, 6608, 8707, 9128, 9399, 10569.]
+
+132. I was informed that the inhabitants and spirits of that earth, in
+the Grand Man, have relation to something in the SPLEEN: and in this
+I was confirmed by an influx into the spleen while they were speaking
+with me.
+
+133. When asked about the sun of their system, which illuminates their
+earth, they said that it appeared flaming. When I represented the size
+of the sun of our Earth, they said that their sun was smaller; for
+before our eyes their sun appears as a star; and I was told by the
+angels that it was one of the lesser stars. They also said that the
+starry heaven is also seen from their earth; and that a star larger
+than the rest appears to them towards the west; it was said from
+heaven that this is our sun.
+
+134. My sight was afterwards opened, so that I could in some measure
+gaze upon that earth itself; and there appeared many meadows and
+forests with trees covered with leaves; likewise fleecy sheep.
+Afterwards I saw some of the inhabitants, who belonged to the lower
+class, clothed nearly like the country folk in Europe. I also saw a
+man (_vir_) with his wife (_mulier_). She appeared of handsome stature
+and of graceful mien; so did the man; but, what surprised me, he
+walked about pompously, with as it were a haughty gait, while the
+woman's gait, on the contrary, was humble. The angels told me that
+such is the custom on that earth, and that notwithstanding this
+peculiarity, the men are loved, because they are good. I was further
+told that they are not allowed to have more than one wife, because it
+is contrary to the laws. The woman I saw had an ample garment before
+her breast, behind which she could conceal herself, and which was so
+made that she could put her arms in it, and wrap herself in it, and in
+this wise go away: the lower portion of it could be gathered up,
+and, when gathered up and folded about the body, it looked like
+a stomacher, such as is worn by the women of our Earth. The same
+garment, however, also served the man for an article of clothing. He
+was seen to take it from the woman and throw it over his own back, and
+loosening the lower part, which thus flowed down to his feet like a
+robe, he walked about clad in this manner. What I saw on that earth
+was not seen with the eyes of my body, but with the eyes of my spirit,
+and a spirit can see the objects that are on an earth, when it is
+permitted by the Lord.
+
+135. As I know that many will doubt the possibility of a man's being
+able, with the eyes of his spirit, to see anything on an earth so
+distant, I may state how the matter is. Distances in the other life
+are not as distances on the Earth. In the other life distances are
+altogether according to the states of the interiors of each one. They
+who are in a similar state are together in one society and in one
+place. All presence there results from likeness of state, and all
+distance results from unlikeness of state. Hence it was that I was
+near to that earth when I was brought by the Lord into a state similar
+to that of its spirits and inhabitants, and that being then present I
+conversed with them. Hence it is evident that earths in the spiritual
+world are not distant as in the natural world, but only apparently so
+according to the states of life of their inhabitants and spirits. The
+state of life is the state of the affections as to love and faith.
+In regard to a spirit, or, what is the same, a man as to his spirit,
+being able to see the things that are on an earth, I may also explain
+how the case therein is. Neither spirits nor angels are able, by their
+own sight, to see anything that is in the world; for to them the light
+of the world, that is, solar light, is as thick darkness: just as man
+by his bodily sight cannot see anything that is in the other life;
+for to him the light of heaven is as thick darkness. But nevertheless
+spirits and angels, when it pleases the Lord, can see the things in
+the natural world through the eyes of a man; but this is not granted
+by the Lord with any except those whom He permits to speak with
+spirits and angels, and to be together with them. It has been
+permitted them to see through my eyes the things in this world, and as
+plainly as I myself did; and even to hear men speaking with me. It has
+sometimes happened that through me some have seen their friends,
+with whom they had been intimate in the life of the body, altogether
+present as before, and they have been amazed thereat. Wives also have
+seen in this manner their husbands and children, and have wanted me to
+tell them that they were present and saw them, and to inform them
+of their state in the other life. But it was forbidden me to say and
+reveal to them that they had been seen in this way, for the further
+reason that they would have called me insane, or have thought my
+information ravings of the mind (_animus_), for I was well aware that,
+although they affirmed with their mouth, they yet did not at heart
+believe in the existence of spirits, the resurrection of the dead and
+their living among spirits, and these being able to see and hear by
+means of a man. When my interior sight was first opened, and when
+those who are in the other life saw through my eyes the world and the
+things therein, they were so amazed that they called it the miracle of
+miracles, and were affected with new joy that there was thus granted a
+communication of the Earth with heaven, and of heaven with the Earth.
+This joy continued for months; but afterwards it became familiar, and
+now the wonder has ceased. I have been informed that the spirits and
+angels with other men do not in the least see the things in the world,
+but only perceive the thoughts and affections of those with whom they
+are. From all this it may appear, that man was so created that, while
+living amongst men in the world, he might at the same time live in
+heaven amongst angels, and contrariwise, so that heaven and the world
+might be together with man, and act as a one, and that men might know
+what passes in heaven, and angels what passes in the world; and
+that when men depart this life, they might pass thus from the Lord's
+kingdom on earth into His kingdom in the heavens, not as into another,
+but as into the same kingdom, in which they had been during their life
+in the body. But as man has become so corporeal, he has closed heaven
+against himself.
+
+136. Lastly, I conversed with spirits who were from that earth
+concerning various things on our Earth, especially concerning the fact
+that sciences are cultivated here, which are not cultivated elsewhere,
+such as astronomy, geometry, mechanics, physics, chemistry, medicine,
+optics, and natural philosophy; and likewise arts, which are unknown
+elsewhere, as the arts of ship-building, of smelting metals, of
+writing on paper, and likewise of publishing by printing, and thus of
+communicating with others on the Earth, and thus also of preserving
+what is communicated for the use of posterity for thousands of years;
+and that this has been done also with the Word which is from the
+Lord, and that on this account revelation is for ever permanent on our
+Earth.
+
+137. At last I was shown the hell of those who are from that earth.
+Those who appeared from there inspired great terror. I dare not
+describe their monstrous faces. Sorceresses also appeared there, who
+practise nefarious arts. They appeared clad in green, and struck me
+with horror.
+
+
+
+
+THE SECOND EARTH IN THE STARRY HEAVEN, AND ITS SPIRITS AND
+INHABITANTS.
+
+
+138. I was afterwards led by the Lord to an earth in the universe
+which was at a much greater distance from our Earth than the first one
+that has just been treated of. That it was at a much greater distance,
+was plain from this circumstance, that I was two days in being led
+thither as to my spirit. This earth was to the left, whereas the
+former was to the right. As remoteness in the spiritual world does
+not, as already observed, arise from distance of place, but from
+difference of state, the long-continuance of my progression thither,
+which lasted two days, enabled me to conclude that the state of
+the interiors which prevailed with them, which is the state of the
+affections and of the consequent thoughts, differed proportionately
+from the state of the interiors which prevails with the spirits from
+our Earth. As I was conveyed thither as to the spirit by means of
+changes of the state of the interiors, I was enabled to observe the
+successive changes themselves before I arrived there. This took place
+while I was awake.
+
+139. When I arrived there, I did not see the earth, but only the
+spirits who were from that earth; for, as has already been stated, the
+spirits of every earth appear about their own earth, because they are
+of a similar genius with the inhabitants, for they are of them, and
+are serviceable to them. Those spirits appeared at a considerable
+height over my head, and from thence they saw me coming. It must be
+borne in mind that they who stand on high in the other life can behold
+those who are below them, and the higher they stand the wider is the
+extent of their vision; and that not only can they behold them, but
+also speak with them. They observed from there that I was not from
+their earth, but from some other at a distance; wherefore, addressing
+me from thence, they questioned me on various subjects, and to these
+questions it was also permitted me to reply. Among other things, I
+told them from what earth I came, and what kind of earth it was; and
+afterwards I told them about the earths in our solar system; and
+then also about the spirits of the earth or planet Mercury, that
+they wander about to many earths for the purpose of procuring for
+themselves knowledges about various things. On hearing this, they said
+that they had also seen those spirits among themselves.
+
+140. I was told by the angels from our Earth that the inhabitants and
+spirits of that earth, in the Grand Man, have relation to KEENNESS OF
+VISION, and that therefore they appear on high; and that they have
+a most penetrating keenness of sight. In consequence of their having
+this relation, and of their seeing clearly the things that were below,
+in the course of our conversation I compared them to eagles, which fly
+aloft, and enjoy a piercing and extensive view of surrounding things.
+At this they became indignant, supposing that I considered them like
+eagles as to their rapacity, and consequently that I thought them
+evil; but I replied, that I did not liken them to eagles as to
+rapacity, but as to keenness of vision.
+
+141. Being questioned concerning the God whom they worshipped, they
+replied that they worshipped a God visible and invisible; a God
+visible under the Human Form, and an invisible God, under no form at
+all; and I learned from their discourse, and likewise from the ideas
+of their thoughts which were communicated to me, that the visible God
+was our Lord Himself, and they also called Him Lord. To this it was
+given me to reply, that on our Earth also, an invisible and a visible
+God is worshipped; and that the invisible God is called the Father,
+and the visible, the Lord; but that both are One, as He Himself
+taught, saying, that no one had ever seen the form of the Father, that
+the Father and He are One, that whoso seeth Him seeth the Father, and
+that the Father is in Him and He in the Father; consequently, that
+both Divine [Essences] are in One Person. That these are the words of
+the Lord Himself, see John v. 37; x. 30; xiv. 7, 9-11.
+
+142. Afterwards I saw other spirits from the same earth, who appeared
+in a place beneath the former: with these also I conversed; but they
+were idolaters, for they worshipped an idol of stone, like a man, but
+an unhandsome one. It is to be observed, that all who come into
+the other life, in the beginning have a worship which is like their
+worship in the world, but that by degrees they are removed from it.
+The reason why this takes place is, that all worship remains implanted
+in man's interior life, from which it cannot be removed and eradicated
+except by degrees. On seeing this, it was given me to tell them that
+they ought not to worship what is dead, but what is living; to which
+they replied, that they knew that God lives, and that a stone does
+not, but that they thought of the living God while looking on a stone
+resembling a man, and that otherwise the ideas of their thought could
+not be fixed upon and determined to the invisible God. It was then
+given me to tell them that the ideas of thought can be fixed upon
+and determined to the invisible God, when they are fixed upon and
+determined to the Lord, who is God visible in thought under the Human
+Form; and thus that man can be conjoined with the invisible God in
+thought and affection, consequently in faith and love, when he is
+conjoined with the Lord, but not otherwise.
+
+143. The spirits who were seen on high were questioned whether on
+their earth they live under the rule of princes or kings. To this they
+replied, that they do not know what governments are, and that they
+live under themselves, distinguished into clans, families, and
+households. They were questioned whether they were thus in security.
+They said they were secure, since one family never envies another, nor
+desires to deprive another of anything. They were indignant at being
+asked such questions, as if they had been charged with being at
+enmity, or with needing protection against robbers. What, said they,
+does anyone need but food and raiment, and thus to live content and
+quiet under one's own management?
+
+144. Being further questioned concerning their earth, they said that
+they have meadows, flower-gardens, orchards full of fruit-trees, and
+also lakes containing fish; and that they have birds of a blue
+colour, with golden feathers; and large and small animals. Amongst the
+smaller, they mentioned one sort which had the back raised like the
+camels on our Earth; nevertheless, they do not feed on their flesh,
+but only on the flesh of fishes, and besides on the fruits of trees,
+and on the leguminous plants of the earth. They said, moreover, that
+they do not live in artificial houses, but in groves, amongst the
+leafy boughs of which they make roofs to shelter them from rain and
+the heat of the sun.
+
+145. Being questioned respecting their sun, which appears as a star
+from our Earth, they said that it has a fiery appearance, and that it
+is not larger to the sight than a man's head. I was told by the angels
+that the star which is their sun is one of the smaller stars, not far
+distant from the equator.
+
+146. There were seen some spirits who were like what they had been
+during their abode as men on their earth. They had faces not unlike
+the faces of the men of our Earth, except that their eyes and nose
+were small. As this appeared to me something of a deformity, they said
+that with them small eyes and a small nose are considered a beauty.
+A female was seen, clothed in a gown ornamented with roses of various
+colours. I asked whence they procured for themselves materials for
+clothing on that earth. They answered that they gather from certain
+plants substances which they spin into thread; and that they then at
+once lay the threads in double and triple rows, moistening them with
+a glutinous water to give them consistence. Afterwards they colour
+the cloth, thus prepared, with the juices of herbaceous plants. It
+was also shown me how they prepare the thread. The women sit down on
+a seat, with their backs bent, and twist the threads with their toes;
+and when twisted they draw the threads towards them, and work them
+with their hands.
+
+147. They said also, that on that earth a husband has only one wife,
+and no more; and that they beget from ten to fifteen children. They
+added, that there are likewise found harlots on that earth; but that
+these, after the life of the body, when they become spirits, are
+sorceresses, and are cast into hell.
+
+
+
+
+THE THIRD EARTH IN THE STARRY HEAVEN, AND ITS SPIRITS AND INHABITANTS.
+
+
+148. There appeared some spirits at a distance, who were unwilling
+to approach. The reason was, that they could not be together with the
+spirits of our Earth who were then about me. From this I apperceived
+that they were from another earth; and I was told afterwards that they
+were from a certain earth in the universe; but where that earth is,
+was not made known to me. These spirits, unlike the spirits from our
+Earth, were absolutely unwilling to think about their body, or even
+about anything corporeal and material; hence it was that they were
+unwilling to approach; yet, after the removal of some of the spirits
+of our Earth, they drew nearer, and spoke with me. But then there
+was a sense of anxiety arising from the collision of the spheres; for
+spiritual spheres surround all spirits and societies of spirits[cc];
+and since they emanate from the life of the affections and the
+consequent thoughts, therefore where the affections are contrary
+collision takes place, and hence arises anxiety. The spirits of our
+Earth related, that they dare not even approach them; since, on their
+approach, they are not only seized with anxiety, but also appear to
+themselves as if they were bound hand and foot with serpents, from
+which they cannot be freed till they have departed. This appearance
+takes its origin from correspondence; for the spirits of our Earth,
+in the Grand Man, have relation to external sense, consequently to the
+corporeal Sensual, and this Sensual is represented in the other life
+by serpents[xx].
+
+[Footnote xx: The external Sensual of man in the spiritual world is
+represented by serpents, because it is in the lowest [parts], and
+relatively to the more interior things in man, lies on the ground, and
+as it were creeps; and on this ground they were called serpents who
+reasoned from that Sensual, nos. 195-197, 6398, 6949.]
+
+149. As the spirits of that earth are such, they appear in the eyes
+of other spirits, not in a distinct human form, as others do, but as
+clouds, in most cases like a dusky cloud, with the fair human colour
+interspersed; but they said, that within they are fair, and that when
+they become angels, this duskiness is changed into a beautiful blue;
+which was also shown me. I asked whether, during their life as men in
+the world, they had entertained such an idea respecting their bodies.
+They replied that the men of their earth make no account of their
+bodies, but only of the spirit in the body, because they know that the
+spirit will live for ever, but that the body must perish. They said
+also, that many on their earth believe that the spirit of the body has
+existed from eternity, and that it was infused into the body when they
+were conceived; but they added, that now they know that it is not so,
+and that they repent of having ever been in so false an opinion.
+
+150. When I asked them whether they would like to see any objects on
+our Earth, informing them that it was possible to do so through my
+eyes (see above, no. 135), they answered first, that they could not,
+and afterwards, that they would not, because the things that they
+would see would be only earthly and material things, from which they
+remove their thoughts as much as possible. But nevertheless, there
+were represented before them magnificent palaces, resembling those
+on our Earth possessed by kings and princes; for such things can
+be represented before spirits, and, when they are represented, they
+appear exactly as if they existed. But the spirits from that earth
+esteemed them as nothing, calling them marble images; and then they
+related that they have more magnificent things belonging to them,
+which are their sacred temples, built not of stone but of wood. When
+it was objected that these were still earthly objects, they replied
+that they were not earthly, but heavenly, because when they gaze upon
+them they have not an earthly but a heavenly idea; believing that
+after death they should also see like objects in heaven.
+
+151. They then represented their sacred temples before the spirits
+of our Earth, who declared that they had not seen anything more
+magnificent; and as they were also seen by me, I can therefore
+describe them. They are constructed of trees not cut down, but growing
+in the place where they first took root. They said that on that earth
+there are trees of a wonderful size and height; these they set in rows
+from the first, so that they may form porticos and colonnades; and by
+cutting and pruning, they fit and prepare the tender shoots, so that
+as they grow they may interlace and join together so as to form the
+groundwork and floor of the temple to be constructed, and to rise at
+the sides to form the walls, and above to bend into arches to form
+the roof. In this manner they construct the temple with admirable art,
+raised high above the ground. They also prepare an ascent into it by
+successive branches of the trees, extended from the trunk and firmly
+connected together. Moreover, they adorn the temple without and within
+in various ways, by disposing the foliage into forms: thus they build
+entire groves. But it was not permitted me to see the character of
+these temples within: I was only told that the light of their sun is
+let in by apertures amongst the branches, and is transmitted here
+and there through crystals, by which means the light falling upon the
+walls is varied in colours like those of the rainbow, especially blue
+and orange, of which they are fondest. Such are their architectural
+works, which they prefer to the most magnificent palaces of our Earth.
+
+152. They said further, that the inhabitants do not dwell in high
+places, but on the earth in lowly cottages, for the reason that high
+places are for the Lord who is in heaven, and lowly places for men
+who are on earth. Their cottages were also shown me. They were oblong,
+having within along the walls a continuous couch, on which they lie
+one behind another. On the side opposite to the door is a rounded
+alcove, before which is a table, and behind the table a fire-place, by
+which the whole chamber is lighted. In this fire-place, there is not
+a burning fire, but a luminous wood, which gives out as much light as
+the flame of a common fire does. They said that in the evening these
+logs of wood appeared as if they had in them the fire of live coals.
+
+153. They said that they do not live as societies, but as households
+by themselves; and that they are societies when they meet for worship;
+that on these occasions those who teach walk within the temple, and
+the rest in the porches at the sides; and that at their meetings they
+experience interior joys, arising from the sight of the temple, and
+from the worship celebrated therein.
+
+154. In respect to Divine worship, they said that they acknowledge
+a God under the Human Form, consequently our Lord; for all who
+acknowledge the God of the universe under the Human Form are accepted
+and led by our Lord: the rest cannot be led, because they think apart
+from a form. They added, that the inhabitants of their earth
+are instructed about the things of heaven by a certain immediate
+intercourse with angels and spirits, into which they may be brought by
+the Lord more easily than others, because they reject corporeal
+things from their thought and affection. I asked what becomes of those
+amongst them who are evil. They told me that on their earth no wicked
+person is allowed to exist; but if any one thinks and does evil, he
+is reprimanded by a certain spirit, who threatens him with death if he
+persists in doing so; and if he persists, he dies by a swoon; and that
+by this means the men of that earth are preserved from the contagion
+of evils. A certain spirit of this character was also sent to me:
+he spoke with me as if with those [evil ones]: he moreover inflicted
+something of pain in the region of my abdomen, saying that this is
+what he does to those who think and do evil, and that he threatens
+them with death if they persist. I was also told that they who profane
+holy things are grievously punished; and that before the punishing
+spirit comes, there appears to them in vision the gaping mouth of
+a lion, of a livid colour, which seems as if it would swallow their
+head, and tear it asunder from the body, whence they are seized with
+horror. They call the punishing spirit the devil.
+
+155. As they were desirous to know how the case is on our Earth in
+regard to revelation, I told them that it is effected by means of
+writing and preaching from the Word, and not by immediate intercourse
+with spirits and angels; and that what is written can be published by
+printing, and thus be read and comprehended by whole societies, and
+that thus the life can be amended. They were exceedingly surprised
+that such an art, utterly unknown elsewhere, could exist on our
+Earth; but they comprehended that on this Earth, where corporeal
+and terrestrial things are so much loved, Divine things could not
+otherwise inflow from heaven and be received; and that it would be
+dangerous for such beings to converse with angels.
+
+156. The spirits of that earth appear above, in the plane of the head,
+towards the right. All spirits are distinguished by their situation
+relatively to the human body; and this is a consequence of the
+universal heaven corresponding with all things of man[f]. These
+spirits keep themselves in that plane, and at that distance,
+because their correspondence is not with the externals, but with the
+interiors, belonging to man. Their action is upon the left knee, above
+and a little below, with a certain vibration very sensibly felt. This
+is a sign that they correspond with _the conjunction of natural things
+and heavenly things_.
+
+
+
+
+THE FOURTH EARTH IN THE STARRY HEAVEN, AND ITS SPIRITS AND
+INHABITANTS.
+
+
+157. I was conducted to yet another earth which is in the universe
+beyond our solar system, which was effected by changes of the state
+of my mind, consequently as to the spirit; for, as has already been
+repeatedly observed, a spirit is conducted from place to place no
+otherwise than by changes of the state of his interiors, which changes
+appear to him in all respects as advancements from place to place, or
+as journeyings. These changes lasted continuously for about ten hours
+before I came from the state of my life to the state of their life,
+thus before I arrived there as to my spirit. I was conveyed towards
+the east, to the left, and seemed to be gradually elevated from
+a horizontal plane. I was also permitted to observe clearly the
+progression and advance from my former place, till at length those
+from whom I had departed no longer appeared; and in the meantime I
+spoke on various subjects with the spirits who were with me. A certain
+spirit was also with us who, during his life in the world, had been
+a prelate and a preacher, as well as a very pathetic writer. From
+my idea concerning him, my spirit-companions supposed he was more
+a Christian at heart than the rest; for in the world an idea is
+conceived and a judgment formed from the preaching and writing,
+and not from the life, if this is not manifest; and if anything
+inconsistent appears in the life, it is nevertheless excused; for the
+idea or thought and perception concerning any one draws everything to
+its side.
+
+158. After this I observed that I was, as to my spirit, in the starry
+heaven, far beyond our solar system; for this can be observed from the
+changes of state and the consequent apparent continued progression,
+which had lasted nearly ten hours. At length I heard spirits
+conversing near some earth, which also I afterwards saw. When I had
+come near them, after some conversation they said that strangers
+sometimes come to them from other places, who converse with them
+concerning God, and confuse the ideas of their thought. They also
+pointed out the way by which they came, from which it was perceived
+that they were of the spirits of our Earth. On being questioned then
+as to the confusion caused in their ideas, they said it arose from
+those spirits saying that they ought to believe in a Divine Being
+distinguished into three persons, whom they nevertheless call one
+God; and on examining the idea of their thoughts, it is exhibited as
+a trine, not continuous hut discrete, with some as three persons
+conversing with each other, and with some as two seated together, one
+near the other, and a third listening to them and going from them;
+and although they call each person God, and have a different idea
+concerning each, they still say there is but one God. They complained
+exceedingly, that they had thrown them into a confusion of ideas, by
+thinking of three and speaking of one, when nevertheless one ought to
+think as one speaks, and speak as one thinks. The spirit who in the
+world had been a prelate and a preacher, and who was also with me,
+was then examined as to the character of the idea he entertained
+respecting one God and three persons: [and it was found that] he
+represented to himself three gods, which, however, made one by
+continuity. He, however, exhibited this Three in One as invisible
+because it was Divine; and while he was exhibiting this, it was
+perceived that he was then thinking only of the Father, and not of the
+Lord, and that his idea concerning the invisible God was no other but
+as of nature in its first principles, from which idea it resulted that
+the inmost of nature was his Divine, so that he might easily be led
+from this to acknowledge nature as God. It is to be borne in mind,
+that the idea which any person entertains on any subject is, in
+the other life, exhibited to the life, and through it every one is
+examined as to the character of his thought and perception on matters
+of faith; and that the idea of the thought concerning God is the chief
+of all, for through it, if genuine, conjunction is effected with the
+Divine, and consequently with heaven. They were afterwards questioned
+concerning the nature of their idea respecting God. They replied that
+they did not conceive of an invisible God, but of a God visible under
+the Human Form; and that they knew this not only from an interior
+perception, but also from the fact, that He has appeared to them as a
+Man. They added that if, according to the idea of some strangers, they
+were to conceive of God as invisible, consequently without form and
+quality, they would not be able to think about God at all, inasmuch as
+such an invisible [being] does not fall into any idea of thought. On
+hearing this, it was given me to tell them that they do well to think
+of God under the Human Form, and that many on our Earth think in like
+manner, especially when they think of the Lord; and that the ancients
+thought in no other way. I then told them about Abraham, Lot, Gideon,
+Manoah and his wife, and what is related of them in our Word, namely,
+that they saw God under the Human Form, and acknowledged Him, thus
+seen, to be the Creator of the universe, and called Him Jehovah, and
+this also from an interior perception; but that at the present day
+that interior perception is lost in the Christian world, and only
+remains with the simple who are in faith.
+
+159. Previous to this conversation, they had believed that our company
+also consisted of those who want to confuse them by the idea of three
+in relation to God; wherefore, on hearing what was said, they were
+affected with joy, and said that God, whom they then called the Lord,
+had also sent some to teach them concerning Him; and that they are
+unwilling to admit strangers who disturb them, especially with the
+idea of three persons in the Divinity, knowing as they do that God
+is One, consequently that the Divine is One, and does not consist of
+three in unanimity, unless they are disposed to think of God as of an
+angel, in whom there is an Inmost of life which is invisible, and from
+which he thinks and is wise; an External of life, which is visible
+under a human form, from which he sees and acts; and a Proceeding
+of life, which is the sphere of love and of faith from him; for from
+every spirit and angel there proceeds a sphere of life by which he is
+known at a distance[cc]; and as to the Lord, that that Proceeding of
+life from Him is the Divine itself which fills and constitutes the
+heavens, because it proceeds from the very Esse of the life of love
+and of faith. They said that in this and in no other manner can they
+perceive a trinity and unity together. On hearing this, it was given
+me to say that such an idea of a trinity and unity together agrees
+with the angelic idea concerning the Lord, and that it is from the
+Lord's own doctrine concerning Himself. For He teaches that the Father
+and Himself are One; that the Father is in Him and He in the Father;
+that he who seeth Him seeth the Father; and he who believeth in
+Him believeth in the Father and knoweth the Father; also that the
+Comforter, whom He calls the Spirit of Truth, and likewise the Holy
+Spirit, proceeds from Him, and does not speak from Himself but from
+Him, by which Comforter is meant the Divine proceeding. I was further
+permitted to tell them that their idea concerning a trinity and unity
+together agrees with the Esse and Existere of the Lord's life when He
+was in the world. The Esse of His life was the Divine Itself, for He
+was conceived of Jehovah, and the Esse of every one's life is that
+of which he is conceived; the Existere of life from that Esse is the
+Human in a form. The esse of the life of every man, which he has
+from his father, is called the soul, and the existere of life thence
+derived is called the body. Soul and body constitute one man. The
+likeness between them resembles the likeness between that which is
+in endeavour and that which is in the resulting act, for an act is
+endeavour acting, and thus the two are one. Endeavour in man is called
+the will, and endeavour acting is called action; the body is the
+instrumental, by means of which the will, which is the principal,
+acts, and in acting the instrumental and principal are a one. Such is
+the case with soul and body. And such is the idea which the angels in
+heaven have concerning soul and body: hence they know that the Lord
+made His Human Divine from the Divine in Himself, which to Him was
+the Soul from the Father. Neither is the faith which is received
+throughout the Christian world in opposition to this idea, for it
+teaches, that "_Although Christ is God and Man, yet He is not two, but
+one Christ;... yea, He is altogether One by unity of Person; for as
+body and soul are one man, so also God and man are one Christ_"[yy].
+As there was such a union or such a oneness in the Lord, therefore He
+rose again, not only as to the Soul, but also as to the Body, which He
+glorified in the world, which is not the case with any man; on which
+subject He also instructed His disciples, saying, "_Feel Me and see,
+for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see Me have_" [(Luke
+xxiv. 39)][zz]. This was clearly understood by those spirits, for
+such truths fall into the understanding of angelic spirits. They then
+added, that the Lord alone has power in the heavens, and that the
+heavens are His; to which it was given me to answer, that this also
+is known to the Church on our Earth from the mouth of the Lord Himself
+before He ascended into heaven; for He then said, "_All power is given
+unto Me in heaven and on earth_" [(Matt, xxviii. 18)].
+
+[Footnote yy: From the Creed of Athanasius.]
+
+[Footnote zz: Immediately after death, man rises again as to his
+spirit; and he is in the human form, and he is a man as to all things
+in general and particular, nos. 4527, 5006, 5078, 8939, 8991, 10594,
+10597, 10758. Man rises again only as to the spirit, and not as to
+the body, nos. 10593, 10594. The Lord alone rose again as to the body
+also, nos. 1729, 2083, 5078, 10825.]
+
+160. I afterwards conversed with those spirits concerning their earth;
+for all spirits can do this when their natural or external memory is
+opened by the Lord; for this they carry with them from the world, but
+it is not opened except at the Lord's good pleasure. Respecting their
+earth, from which they had come, the spirits then said that when leave
+is given them, they appear to the inhabitants, and converse with
+them, as men; and that this is effected by their being let into their
+natural or external memory, and consequently into such a thought
+as they had been in when they lived in the world; and that on such
+occasions the inhabitants have their interior sight or the sight of
+their spirit opened, by which they see the spirits. They added, that
+the inhabitants know no otherwise than that they are men of their
+earth, and only apperceive they are not when they are suddenly removed
+from their sight, I told them that the same thing also happened on our
+Earth in ancient times, as, for instance, to Abraham, Sarah, Lot, the
+inhabitants of Sodom, Manoah and his wife, Joshua, Mary, Elizabeth,
+and the prophets generally; and that the Lord appeared in like manner,
+and they who saw Him knew no otherwise than that He was a man of the
+earth, till He revealed Himself. But that at the present day this
+rarely happens; the reason is, lest men by such things should be
+compelled to believe; for compelled faith, such as is the faith
+which enters by means of miracles, does not inhere, and would also be
+hurtful to those with whom faith may be implanted by means of the Word
+in a state without compulsion.
+
+161. The spirit, who had been a prelate and a preacher in the world,
+entirely disbelieved that any other earths existed besides our own,
+because he had thought in the world that the Lord was born on this
+Earth alone, and that without the Lord none could be saved; wherefore
+he was reduced into a state similar to that into which spirits are
+reduced when they appear on their own earth as men (which state has
+been treated of just above); and thus he was let into that earth,
+so that he not only saw it, but also conversed with the inhabitants
+there. This done, a communication was by this means granted me also,
+so that I likewise saw the inhabitants, and also some objects on that
+earth (see above, no. 135). There appeared then four kinds of men, but
+one after the other in succession; the first I saw were clothed; the
+second were naked, of a human flesh colour; the next were naked, but
+with flame-coloured bodies; and the last were black.
+
+162. While the spirit who had been a prelate and a preacher was with
+those who were clothed, a woman with a very pretty face appeared. She
+was simply attired; her robe hung gracefully behind her, and was also
+drawn over her arms, and she wore a beautiful head-dress, in the form
+of a chaplet of flowers. That spirit was greatly delighted at the
+sight of this virgin; he spoke to her, and also took her by the hand;
+but, apperceiving that he was a spirit, and not of that earth, she
+hurried hastily away from him. Afterwards there appeared to him on the
+right several other women, who had the care of sheep and lambs, which
+they were then leading to a watering-trough, into which water was led
+by means of a trench from some lake. They were similarly clothed, and
+had shepherds' crooks in their hands, by which they led the sheep and
+lambs to drink; they said the sheep went whichever way they pointed
+with their crooks: the sheep which we saw were large, with woolly
+tails, broad and long. The faces of the women, when seen nearer, were
+full and beautiful. Some men were also seen; their faces were of a
+human flesh colour, like that of the men of our Earth, but with this
+difference, that the lower part of the face, instead of being bearded,
+was black, and the nose more of a snowy-white than of a flesh colour.
+Afterwards the spirit who, as already mentioned, had been a preacher
+in the world, was led further on, but reluctantly, because he was
+still thinking about that woman with whom he had been delighted, as
+was evident from the circumstance that there still appeared something
+of his shadow in the former place. He then came to those who were
+naked. They were seen walking together by twos, husband and wife, girt
+with a girdle about the loins, and some sort of covering around the
+head. That spirit, when he was with them, was led into the state in
+which he had been in the world when he was disposed to preach, and
+then he said he would preach before them the Lord crucified; but they
+said they would not hear such a thing, because they did not know what
+it was, but that they knew that the Lord lives. He then said he would
+preach the Lord living; but this too they refused, saying that they
+apperceived in his speech something not heavenly, because it had much
+respect to himself, and his own fame and honour; and that they could
+hear from the tone of voice whether what was said came from the heart
+or not; and that, as he was of such a character, he was unable to
+teach them; wherefore he was silent. During his life in the world he
+had been extremely pathetic, so that he could deeply move his hearers
+to holiness; but this pathetic manner had been acquired by art, thus
+from self and the world, and not from heaven.
+
+163. They said, moreover, that they have a perception whether the
+Conjugial is with those of their clan who are naked; and it was shown
+that they perceive this by virtue of a spiritual idea concerning
+marriage, which idea being communicated to me was to the effect, that
+a likeness of the interiors was formed by the conjunction of good and
+truth, consequently of love and faith, and that from that conjunction
+descending by influx into the body conjugial love comes into
+existence. For all things which belong to the mind (_animus_) are
+exhibited in some natural form in the body, consequently in the form
+of conjugial love, when the interiors of two mutually love each other,
+and from that love also desire to will and to think the one as the
+other, and thus to be together and be conjoined as to the interiors
+which are of the mind (_mens_). Hence the spiritual affection, which
+is of the minds, becomes natural affection in the body, and clothes
+itself with the sense of conjugial love. The spiritual affection
+which is of the minds is the affection of good and truth, and of their
+conjunction; for all things of the mind, or of the thought and will,
+have relation to truth and good. They also said that it is quite
+impossible for the Conjugial to exist between one man and several
+wives, since the marriage of good and truth, which pertains to the
+minds, can exist only between two.
+
+164. After this, the spirit already spoken of came to those who were
+naked, but whose bodies were flame-coloured; and lastly, to those who
+were black, some of whom were naked and some clothed; but the latter
+and the former dwelt in a different part of the same earth; for a
+spirit may be led in an instant to places far asunder on an earth,
+since he does not proceed and advance like man through spaces, but
+through changes of state (see above, nos. 125, 127)[ss].
+
+165. I lastly conversed with the spirits of that earth concerning
+the belief of the inhabitants of our Earth on the subject of the
+resurrection, in that they cannot conceive that men come into the
+other life immediately after death, and then appear as men as to the
+face, the body, the arms, the feet, and all the external and internal
+senses; still less that they are then clothed in garments, and have
+mansions and dwelling-places; and that the sole reason of this is that
+most persons here think from the sensuals which belong to the body,
+and therefore believe in the existence of nothing but what they see
+and touch; and that few of them can be withdrawn from external sensual
+things to interior things, and thus be elevated into the light of
+heaven, in which such things are perceived. Hence it is, that they can
+have no idea of their soul or spirit as of a man, but as of wind, or
+air, or a breath without form, in which there is yet something vital.
+This is the reason why they do not believe they shall rise again till
+the end of the world, which they call the Last Judgment, when the
+body, though mouldered into dust, and scattered by every wind, will be
+brought together again and conjoined to its soul or spirit. I added,
+that it is permitted them to believe this, since those who, as was
+said, think from external sensual things, can conceive no otherwise
+than that the soul or spirit cannot live as a man in a human form,
+unless it receive again that body which it carried about in the world;
+wherefore, unless it were asserted that the body will rise again, they
+would reject from their heart as incomprehensible the doctrine of
+the resurrection and of eternal life. But nevertheless this thought
+concerning the resurrection has this advantage with it, that it leads
+them to believe in a life after death, a consequence of which belief
+is, that when they lie on a sick bed, and do not, as theretofore,
+think from worldly and corporeal things, thus not from sensual
+things, they then believe that they shall live immediately after their
+decease; they then also speak of heaven, and of the hope of a life
+there immediately after death, quite apart from their doctrinal
+concerning the Last Judgment. I related further, that sometimes it had
+been matter of surprise to me, that when those who are in faith speak
+of a life after death, and of their friends and relatives who are
+dying or dead, and do not at the same time think about the Last
+Judgment, they believe that they will live or are living as men
+immediately on their decease. But as soon as thought concerning the
+Last Judgment flows in, this idea is changed into the material idea
+concerning their earthly body, that it is again to be conjoined to
+their soul; for they do not know that every man is a spirit as to his
+interiors, and that this it is which lives in the body and in each of
+its parts, and not the body which lives of itself; and that it is the
+spirit of every one from which his body has its human form, and which,
+consequently, is principally the man, and in a similar form, but
+invisible to the eyes of the body, yet visible to the eyes of spirits.
+Hence also, when the sight of a man's spirit is opened, which is
+effected by the removal of the bodily sight, angels appear as men: in
+this manner angels appeared to the ancients, as recorded in the
+Word. I have also sometimes spoken with spirits, with whom I had been
+acquainted when they lived as men in the world, and I have asked
+them whether they had any inclination to be clothed again with their
+earthly bodies, as they used to think would be the case. But they fled
+far away at the very idea of such a conjunction, being smitten with
+amazement that, while in the world, they should have thought in
+this manner under the influence of so blind a belief, devoid of all
+understanding.
+
+166. Moreover, on that earth I saw the dwellings of the inhabitants:
+they were lowly houses, extended in length, with windows at the sides,
+according to the number of the rooms or chambers into which they were
+divided. The roof was arched, and there was a door on each side at
+the end. They told me that they were built of earth, and covered with
+turf; and that the windows were formed of filaments of grass woven
+together in such a manner that the light shone through. I also saw
+little children; and the inhabitants told me that their neighbours
+come to them, especially for the sake of the little children, that
+they may be in company with other children in the presence and under
+the direction of their parents. There also appeared fields becoming
+white with standing crops that were at that time nearly ripe for
+harvest. The seeds or grains of that corn were shown me, and they were
+like grains of Chinese wheat: I was also shown some bread made from
+it, which was in small square loaves. There also appeared plains
+of grass adorned with flowers; also trees laden with fruit like
+pomegranates; also shrubs, which were not vines, but still produced
+berries from which they prepare wine.
+
+167. The sun of that earth, which is to us a star, appears there
+flaming, in size almost a fourth part of our sun. Their year is about
+two hundred days, and each day fifteen hours, relatively to the length
+of days on our Earth. The earth itself is one of the least in
+the starry heaven, being scarcely five hundred German miles in
+circumference. The angels stated these particulars from a comparison
+made with things of the like kind on our Earth, which they saw in
+me, or in my memory. Their conclusions were formed by angelic ideas,
+whereby are instantly known the measures of spaces and times, in a
+just proportion relatively to spaces and times elsewhere. Angelic
+ideas, which are spiritual, in such calculations immensely surpass
+human ideas, which are natural.
+
+
+
+
+THE FIFTH EARTH IN THE STARRY HEAVEN, AND ITS SPIRITS AND INHABITANTS.
+
+
+168. I was led to yet another earth in the universe beyond our solar
+system, and on this occasion also by changes of state continued for
+nearly twelve hours. In company with me were several spirits and
+angels from our Earth, with whom I conversed during this voyage or
+progression. I was carried at times obliquely upwards and obliquely
+downwards, continually towards the right, which in the other life is
+towards the south. In two places only did I see spirits, and in one I
+spoke with them. During this journey or progression I was permitted
+to observe how immense was the Lord's heaven, which is designed for
+angels and spirits; for from the parts uninhabited I was enabled
+to conclude that it was so immense that, supposing there were many
+myriads of earths, and on each earth as great a multitude of human
+beings as on our own, there would still be a place of abode for them
+to eternity, and it would never be filled. This I was enabled to
+conclude from a comparison made with the [inhabited] extent of the
+heaven which is about our Earth and designed for it, which extent was
+so small relatively, as not to equal one ten-thousand-thousandth part
+of the extent uninhabited.
+
+169. When the angelic spirits who were from that earth came into view,
+they accosted us, asking who we were, and what we wanted. We told them
+that we were travelling, that we had been transported thither, and
+that they had nothing to fear from us. For they were afraid that we
+were of those who disturb them concerning God, faith, and kindred
+subjects, on account of whom they had betaken themselves to that
+quarter of their earth, shunning them as much as possible. We asked
+them by what they were disturbed. They replied, by the idea of Three,
+and by the idea of the Divine without the Human in God, when they yet
+know and perceive that God is one, and that He is man. It was then
+perceived that those who disturbed them, and whom they shunned, were
+from our Earth: this was manifest also from this consideration, that
+there are spirits from our Earth who thus wander about in the other
+life, in consequence of their fondness for and delight in travelling,
+which they have contracted in the world; for on other earths there is
+no such custom of travelling as on ours. It was afterwards discovered
+that they were monks, who had travelled on our globe from a desire
+to convert the gentiles. We therefore told them that they did well to
+shun them, because their intention was, not to teach, but to secure
+gain and dominion; and that they strive by various means first to
+captivate men's minds (_animi_), and afterwards to subject them to
+themselves as slaves: moreover, that they did well in not suffering
+their idea concerning God to be disturbed by such spirits. They said
+further, that these spirits also confuse them by asserting that they
+ought to have faith, and to believe what they say; but that their
+reply to them is, that they do not know what faith or believing means,
+since they perceive in themselves whether a thing be so or not. They
+were of the Lord's celestial kingdom, where all know by interior
+perception the truths which with us are called the truths of faith,
+for they are in enlightenment from the Lord; but it is otherwise with
+those who are in the spiritual kingdom. That the angelic spirits of
+that earth were of the Lord's celestial kingdom, I could also see from
+the flame whence their ideas flowed; for in the celestial kingdom the
+light is flaming, and in the spiritual kingdom it is bright white.
+They who are of the celestial kingdom, when the discourse is about
+truths, say no more than Yea, yea, or Nay, nay, and never reason about
+them whether they be so or not. These are they of whom the Lord says,
+"_Let your discourse be Yea, yea, Nay, nay; what is beyond this is of
+evil_" [(Matt. v. 37)]. Hence it was that those spirits said that they
+did not know what it is to have faith or to believe. They consider
+this to be like one saying to his companion, who with his own eyes
+sees houses or trees, that he ought to have faith or to believe that
+they are houses and trees, when he sees clearly that they are so. Such
+are they who are of the Lord's celestial kingdom, and such were these
+angelic spirits[aaa]. We told them that few on our Earth have interior
+perception, because in their youth they learn truths, and do not
+practise them. For man has two faculties, which are called the
+understanding and the will; they who admit truths no further than into
+the memory, and thence in some degree into the understanding, but not
+into the life, that is, into the will, these, inasmuch as they cannot
+be in any enlightenment or interior sight from the Lord, say that
+those truths ought to be believed, or that man ought to have faith in
+them; and they also reason about them whether they be truths or
+not; nay, they are not willing that they should be perceived by any
+interior sight, or by any enlightenment by the understanding. They say
+this, because truths with them are without light from heaven, and
+to those who see without light from heaven, falsities may appear as
+truths, and truths as falsities. Hence so great blindness has fallen
+on many on our Earth, that although a man does not practise truths or
+live according to them, they say nevertheless that he may be saved by
+faith alone, as if a man were not man from the life and according to
+it, but from the knowledge of such things as belong to faith, apart
+from the life. We afterwards conversed with them concerning the Lord,
+concerning love to Him, love towards the neighbour, and regeneration;
+saying, that loving the Lord consists in loving the precepts which are
+from Him, that is, in living according to them from love[bbb]; that
+love towards the neighbour consists in willing good and thence doing
+good to a fellow-citizen, to one's country, to the church, to the
+Lord's kingdom, not for the selfish end of being seen or acquiring
+merit, but from the affection of good[ccc]. Concerning regeneration,
+we observed that they who are being regenerated by the Lord, and
+who commit truths immediately to the life, come into an interior
+perception concerning them; but that those who receive truths first in
+the memory, and afterwards will them and do them, are those who are in
+faith; for they act from faith, which is then called conscience. These
+things, they said, they perceived to be so, and therefore perceived
+also what faith is. I conversed with them by means of spiritual ideas,
+by which such subjects may be exhibited and comprehended in light.
+
+[Footnote aaa: Heaven is distinguished into two kingdoms, one of which
+is called the celestial kingdom, the other the spiritual kingdom,
+nos. 3887, 4138. The angels in the celestial kingdom have vastly more
+knowledge and wisdom than the angels in the spiritual kingdom, no.
+2718. The celestial angels do not think and speak from faith, like the
+spiritual angels, but from an internal perception that a thing is so,
+nos. 202, 597, 607, 784, 1121, 1387, 1398, 1442, 1919, 7680, 7877,
+8780. The celestial angels say only concerning the truths of faith,
+Yea, yea, or Nay, nay, but the spiritual angels reason whether a thing
+be so or not so, nos. 202, 337, 2715, 3246, 4448, 9166.]
+
+[Footnote bbb: Loving the Lord means living according to His
+commandments, nos. 10143, 10153, 10310, 10578, 10645.]
+
+[Footnote ccc: Loving the neighbour consists in doing what is good,
+just, and right, in every work and in every function, from the
+affection of what is good, just, and right, nos. 8120, 8121, 8123,
+10310, 10336. A life of love towards the neighbour is a life according
+to the Lord's precepts, no. 3249.]
+
+170. The spirits with whom I had now spoken were from the northern
+part of their earth. I was afterwards led to others who were on the
+western part. These also, wishing to examine who and what I was;
+immediately said that there was nothing in me but evil, thinking that
+thus I might be deterred from approaching nearer. I apperceived that
+this was their manner of accosting all who come to them. But it was
+given me to reply that I well knew it to be so, and that in them
+likewise there was nothing but evil, by reason that every one is born
+into evil, and therefore whatever comes from man, spirit, or angel,
+as from what is his own, or from his proprium, is nothing but evil;
+inasmuch as all the good that is in every one, is from the Lord.
+Hence they apperceived that I was in the truth, and I was admitted to
+converse with them. They then showed me their idea concerning evil in
+man, and concerning good from the Lord, how they are separated from
+each other. They placed one near the other, almost contiguous, but
+still distinct, yet as if bound in an inexpressible manner, so that
+the good led the evil, and restrained it, insomuch that it was not
+allowed to act at pleasure; and that thus the good bent the evil in
+whatever direction it desired, without the evil knowing anything of
+it. In this manner they exhibited the dominion of good over evil,
+and at the same time a state of freedom. They then asked how the Lord
+appeared amongst the angels from our Earth. I said that He appeared
+in the sun as a Man, encompassed therein with a fiery solar [sphere],
+from which the angels in the heavens derive all light; and that the
+heat which proceeds thence is the Divine Good, and that the light
+which proceeds thence is the Divine Truth, both from the Divine Love,
+which is the fiery [sphere] appearing around the Lord in that sun;
+but that that sun only appears to the angels in heaven, and not to
+the spirits who are beneath, since the latter are more remote from
+the reception of the good of love and of the truth of faith, than the
+angels who are in the heavens (see above, no. 40). It was given them
+thus to inquire concerning the Lord, and concerning His appearance
+before the angels from our Earth, because it pleased the Lord then to
+become present among them, and to reduce into order the things which
+had been disturbed there by the evil spirits of whom they complained.
+The reason also why I was led thither, was in order that I might be an
+eye-witness of these things.
+
+171. There was then seen a dark cloud towards the east descending from
+on high, which in its descent appeared by degrees full of light and
+in the human form. At length this [human form] appeared in a flaming
+radiance, encompassed with small stars of the same colour. Thus the
+Lord presented Himself before the spirits with whom I was conversing.
+At His presence all the spirits who were there were instantly
+gathered together from every side; and when they were come, they were
+separated, the good from the evil, the good to the right and the evil
+to the left, and this in an instant as of their own accord. Those on
+the right were arranged in order according to the quality of the good,
+and those on the left according to the quality of the evil, with
+them: they who were good remained to form among themselves a heavenly
+society; but the evil were cast into the hells. Afterwards I saw that
+that flaming radiance descended to the lower parts of the earth there
+to a considerable depth, and then it appeared at one time in a flaming
+[lustre] verging to luminosity, at another time in a luminosity
+verging into obscurity, and at another in obscurity: and I was told by
+the angels that that appearance is according to the reception of truth
+from good, and of falsity from evil, with those who inhabit the lower
+parts of that earth, and that the flaming radiance itself was subject
+to no such variations. They also said, that the lower parts of that
+earth were inhabited both by the good and by the evil; but that they
+were thoroughly separated, to the end that the evil might be ruled
+by the Lord through the good. They added, that the good are by turns
+elevated thence into heaven by the Lord, and that others succeed in
+their place, and so on perpetually. In that descent, the good were
+separated from the evil in like manner, and all things were reduced
+to order; for the evil, by various arts and cunning contrivances,
+had intruded themselves into the dwellings of the good there, and had
+infested them; and this was the cause of the present visitation. That
+cloud, which in descending appeared by degrees full of light and in
+the human form, and afterwards as a flaming radiance, was an angelic
+society, in whose midst the Lord was. From this it was given me to
+know what is meant by the Lord's words in the Gospels, where, speaking
+of the Last Judgment, He says, "_That He would come with the angels
+in the clouds of heaven, with glory and power_" [(Matt. xxiv. 30; Mark
+xiii. 26; Luke xxi. 27)].
+
+172. After this were seen some monkish spirits, those, namely,
+who have already been spoken of as having been travelling monks or
+missionaries in the world; and there was also seen a crowd of spirits
+who were from that earth, most of them evil, whom they had drawn over
+to their side, and led astray. These were seen on the eastern quarter
+of that earth, from whence they had driven away the good, who betook
+themselves to the northern side of the earth, and of whom we have
+spoken above. That crowd, together with their seducers, were collected
+together to the number of some thousands, and were separated; the evil
+of that crowd were cast into the hells. It was also given me to speak
+with one spirit who was a monk, and to ask him what he did there.
+He replied that he taught them concerning the Lord. I asked, what
+besides. He said, concerning heaven and hell. I asked, what further.
+He said, concerning faith in all that he should say. I asked again,
+if he taught anything else. He said, concerning the power of remitting
+sins, and of opening and shutting heaven. He was then examined as to
+what he knew concerning the Lord, the truths of faith, the remission
+of sins, man's salvation, and heaven and hell; and it was discovered
+that he knew scarcely anything, that he was in obscurity and falsity
+concerning all and each of these subjects, and that he was possessed
+solely by the lust of acquiring gain and dominion, which he had
+contracted in the world and brought with him from thence. He was
+therefore told that as he had, prompted by that lust, travelled
+thus far, and as he was such in regard to doctrine, he could not but
+deprive the spirits of that earth of heavenly light, and inflict on
+them the darkness of hell, and thus cause hell, and not the Lord, to
+have dominion with them. Moreover, he was cunning in seducing, but
+stupid as to the things relating to heaven. As he was of such a
+character, he was afterwards cast into hell. Thus the spirits of that
+earth were freed of them.
+
+173. The spirits of that earth, amongst other things, also said that
+those strangers, who, as has been said, were monkish spirits, used all
+their endeavours to persuade them to live together in society, and not
+separate and solitary. For spirits and angels dwell and live together
+just as they had done in the world. Those who have dwelt together
+collectively in the world, also dwell collectively together in the
+other life; and those who have dwelt separated into households and
+families, also dwell separated there. These spirits, whilst they had
+lived as men on their earth, had dwelt separated, every household and
+family, and thus every clan, apart, and therefore knew not what it was
+to dwell together in society. Wherefore, when it was told them that
+those strangers wanted to persuade them to this, in order that they
+might reign and rule over them, and that they could not otherwise
+subject them to themselves and make them slaves, they replied that
+they were totally ignorant what was meant by reigning and ruling. That
+they flee away at the bare idea of rule and domination, was manifest
+to me from this circumstance, that one of them, who accompanied us on
+the return journey, when I showed him the city in which I dwelt, at
+the first sight of it fled away, and was seen no more.
+
+174. I then conversed with the angels who were with me, concerning
+dominion, that there are two kinds of dominion, one, of love towards
+the neighbour, and the other, of the love of self; and that the
+dominion of love towards the neighbour exists among those who dwell
+separated into households, families, and clans: but the dominion of
+the love of self among those who dwell together in society. Among
+those who live separated into households, families, and clans, he who
+is the father of the clan bears rule, and under him the fathers of
+families, and under these the fathers of each household. He is called
+the father of the clan, from whom the families are derived, and the
+households of which the families are composed. But all these exercise
+dominion from love, like the love of a father towards his children,
+who teaches them how they ought to live, provides for their good, and
+as far as possible gives to them of what is his own. It never enters
+into his mind to subject them to himself, as subjects or as servants,
+but he loves that they should obey him as sons obey their father. And
+since this love, as is known, increases in descending, therefore the
+father of a clan acts from a more inward love than the father himself
+from whom the children are immediately descended. Such also is the
+dominion in the heavens, because such is the Lord's dominion; for His
+dominion is from Divine Love towards the whole human race. But the
+dominion of the love of self, which is opposite to the dominion of
+love towards the neighbour, began when man alienated himself from the
+Lord; for in proportion as a man does not love and worship the
+Lord, in that proportion he loves and worships himself, and in
+that proportion also he loves the world. Then it was that, from the
+necessity for self-preservation, clans consisting of families
+and households gathered themselves into one body, and established
+governments under various forms. For in proportion as that love
+increased, in the same proportion evils of every kind, as, enmity,
+envy, hatred, revenge, cruelty and deceit, increased with it, being
+directed against all who opposed that love; for from the proprium, in
+which those are who are in the love of self, nothing but evil springs,
+inasmuch as man's proprium is nothing but evil, and, as the proprium
+is evil, it is not receptive of good from heaven: therefore the love
+of self, when it is the reigning love, is the father of all such
+evils[ddd]; and that love is also of such a nature, that in proportion
+as it is left without restraint, it rushes on until at length each one
+who is of such a character wants to have dominion over all others in
+the whole globe, and wishes to possess all the goods of the others;
+nay, it is not even content with this, but would have dominion over
+the whole heaven; as may appear from the case of modern Babylon. Such
+then is the dominion of the love of self, from which the dominion of
+love towards the neighbour differs as much as heaven does from hell.
+But notwithstanding that the dominion of the love of self is such in
+societies, or in kingdoms and empires, there nevertheless exists even
+in these a dominion of love towards the neighbour among those who are
+wise from faith in and love to God, for these love the neighbour. That
+in the heavens also these dwell distinguished into clans, families,
+and households, although in societies together, but according to
+spiritual affinities which have relation to the good of love and the
+truth of faith, will, by the Lord's Divine mercy, be stated elsewhere.
+
+[Footnote ddd: Man's proprium, which he derives from his parents, is
+nothing but dense evil, nos. 210, 215, 731, 874, 876, 987, 1047, 2307,
+2308, 3518, 3701, 3812, 8480, 8550, 10283, 10284, 10286, 10731. Man's
+proprium consists in loving himself more than God, and the world more
+than heaven, and in holding his neighbour of no account in respect to
+himself, except it be for the sake of himself, consequently [in making
+much of] himself; thus it consists of the love of self and of the
+world, nos. 694, 731, 4317, 5660. All evils flow from the love of self
+and of the world, when these predominate, nos. 1307, 1308, 1321, 1594,
+1691, 3413, 7255, 7376, 7488, 8318, 9335, 9348, 10038, 10742. These
+evils are contempt of others, enmity, hatred, revenge, cruelty,
+deceit, nos. 6667, 7372-7374, 9348, 10038, 10742. And from these evils
+all falsity flows, nos. 1047, 10283, 10284, 10286.]
+
+175. I afterwards questioned those spirits concerning various things
+in the earth from which they were; and first, concerning their Divine
+worship, and concerning revelation. Concerning the Divine worship,
+they said that clans, with their families, meet together every
+thirtieth day, in one place, and hear preaching; and that on these
+occasions the preacher, from a pulpit raised a little from the
+ground, teaches them the Divine truths which lead to the good of life.
+Concerning revelation, they said that it is made early in the morning
+in a state midway between sleeping and wakefulness, when they are in
+an interior light not as yet interfered with by the bodily senses and
+worldly things; that on such occasions they hear the angels of heaven
+speaking concerning Divine truths, and a life according to them; and
+that when they are quite awake, an angel in a white garment appears
+to them by the bed, and then suddenly disappears from their sight; and
+that by this they know that what they have heard is from heaven. Thus
+a Divine vision is distinguished from a vision which is not Divine;
+for in a vision which is not Divine no angel appears. They added,
+that in such a manner revelations are made with their preachers, and
+sometimes also with others.
+
+176. On questioning them concerning their houses, they said that they
+are lowly, built of wood, with a flat roof, having a cornice sloping
+downwards; and that in front dwell the husband and wife, in the next
+chamber the children, and the maid-servants and men-servants at the
+back. With regard to food, they said that they drink milk with water;
+and that they get the milk from cows, which are woolly like sheep.
+Concerning their [mode of] life, they said that they go naked, and
+that to them nakedness is not a matter of shame; also that their
+habitual association is with those who are within their own families.
+
+177. Concerning the sun of that earth, they related that it appears to
+the inhabitants of a flame-colour; that the time of their year is two
+hundred days, and that a day equals nine hours of our time, which they
+could conclude from the length of the days of our Earth perceived in
+me; and further, that they have a perpetual spring and summer, and
+consequently that the fields are ever blooming, and the trees are ever
+bearing fruit: the reason why the case is thus is, that their year
+is so short, being equal to the time of only seventy-five days of our
+year; and when the years are so short, the cold does not continue long
+in winter nor the heat in summer, and the ground in consequence is in
+a continual state of verdancy.
+
+178. Concerning betrothals and marriages on that earth, they related
+that a daughter, when she approaches a marriageable age, is kept at
+home, nor is she allowed to go out till the day she is to be married;
+and that she is then conducted to a certain connubial house, where
+several other marriageable young women are also brought; that they are
+there placed behind a screen, which reaches as high as the middle of
+the body, so that they appear naked as to the breast and face; that
+on such occasions the young men come there to choose for themselves a
+wife; and that when a young man sees a young woman suitable for him,
+and to whom his mind (_animus_) draws him, he takes her by the
+hand. If she then follows him, he leads her to a house that has
+been prepared, and she becomes his wife. For they see from the faces
+whether they agree in disposition (_animus_), since on that earth
+every one's face is an index of the disposition (_animus_), and
+disguises and counterfeits nothing. In order that everything may be
+done with decency and without lasciviousness, an old man is seated
+behind the young virgins, and an elderly woman at their side, to
+watch. There are many such places to which the young women are
+conducted; and there are also stated times for the young men to make
+their choice; for if they do not find a girl to suit them at one
+place, they go to another; and if not at one time, they return again
+at another. They said further, that a husband has only one wife, and
+never more than one, because this is contrary to Divine order.
+
+
+
+
+INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
+
+_The numbers refer to the paragraph, not to the pages. The footnotes
+are referred to as part of the text._
+
+  ACT. See ENDEAVOUR.
+
+  ADORATION. See under WORSHIP.
+
+  AFFECTIONS, angels enter into man's, 11;
+    manifested by the countenance, 54;
+    how spiritual affection becomes natural affection, 163;
+    affection of thought, 88.
+
+  AGREEMENT of life conjoins, 127[2].
+
+  ANALYTICAL SCIENCE, 38[4].
+
+  ANGEL. See under SPIRITS.
+    Difference between celestial and spiritual angels, 169[2].
+
+  ANIMALS, instinct of, 96;
+    how man becomes like a brute animal, 58[2].
+
+  ANIMUS. See MIND.
+
+  ANXIETY arises from collision of spheres, 148.
+
+  APPARITION of a flame, 21;
+    of a face, 76;
+    of an old man, 76;
+    of a bald head, 84.
+
+  APPEARANCE of spirits and angels on our Earth, 160;
+    why it no longer takes place, 160.
+
+  ARCHITECTURE, 151.
+
+  ARISTOTLE, 38[3].
+
+  ATHANASIAN CREED quoted, 159[3].
+
+  ATMOSPHERE of the Moon, 111.
+
+
+  BABYLON, modern, 174[2].
+
+  BALD HEAD, apparition of, 84.
+
+  BETROTHALS, 178.
+
+  BIRDS, signification of, 33, 94[3];
+    instinct of, 96;
+    bird of stone, 94-96.
+
+  BLUE, correspondence of, 83.
+
+  BODY (The) is only of use in this world, 123;
+    soul and body, 159[3].
+
+  BRUTE ANIMAL, how man becomes like, 58[2].
+
+  BUTTERFLIES, 79[3].
+
+
+  CATERPILLARS, 79[3].
+
+  CELESTIAL and spiritual kingdom and angels, 169[2].
+
+  CEREBRUM and cerebellum, 88.
+
+  CHANGES of colours, 94[3];
+    of state, 125, 157, 164.
+
+  CHARIOTS, signification of, 82.
+
+  CHASMS, 128, 129.
+
+  CHASTISING SPIRITS, 72-78.
+
+  CHIMNEY-SWEEPERS, 79.
+
+  CHOIRS, 61[3].
+
+  CHURCH, difference between celestial and spiritual, 85.
+
+  CLOUDS, 149, 171.
+
+  COLD, 63, 78.
+
+  COLOURS, signification of, 94[3].
+
+  COMFORTER, 159[2].
+
+  COMMUNICATION, mutual, of all things in heaven, 15, 25, 36;
+    of men with spirits, 71;
+    with heaven, how and when closed, 71;
+    with heaven, on Mars, 90;
+    communications are effected by Subjects, 95[2].
+
+  CONCEIT, of spirits of Mercury, 16, 37;
+    impairs perception, 62[2].
+
+  CONJUGIAL (The), 163.
+
+  CONJUNCTION with the Lord, how effected, 123, 142;
+    of natural things and heavenly things, 156.
+
+  CONSOCIATIONS are effected according to spheres, 64;
+    with angels, conditions of, 123.
+
+  CORRESPONDENCE of heaven and the Lord, and of man and heaven, 5,
+          156.
+
+  COUNTERFEITING, its effect on the face, 53.
+
+  CREATION, the end of, is man, 112, 126.
+
+  CRYSTALS, 19.
+
+
+  DANCER, 38[4].
+
+  DANGER of intercourse with spirits, 1.
+
+  DEVIL, 154.
+
+  DISAGREEMENT of life disjoins, 127[2].
+
+  DISSOCIATIONS are effected according to spheres, 64.
+
+  DISTANCES in their origin are changes of state, 125;
+    in the other life are real appearances, 86;
+    how circumstanced, 135, 138;
+    distance results from unlikeness of state, 135.
+
+  DIVINE TRUTH appears in heaven as light, 41, 131;
+    all things were created through the Divine Truth, 122.
+
+  DIVINE TRUTH proceeding from the Lord is the Word, 122.
+
+  DIVINE Worship. See under WORSHIP.
+
+  DOCTRINE, all, from the Word, 82.
+
+  DOMINION of good over evil, 170.
+    The two kinds of dominion, 174.
+
+  DRESS, its use and abuse, 62[4].
+
+  DWARFS, 111[2].
+
+
+  EAGLES, 140.
+
+  EARTH (Our), ignorance on, 27, 169[3];
+    character of spirits of, 39, 61, 62, 66, 98, 99, 158, 169;
+    the spirits of, in the Grand Man, relate to the various
+          functions of the exterior parts of the body, 64;
+    to the external sense, 89;
+    to natural and corporeal sense, 102[2];
+    to natural and external sense, 122;
+    to external sense, thus to the corporeal Sensual, 148;
+    corporeal things loved on, 155.
+
+  EARTHS in the universe, 2, 3, 6, 26;
+    not visible in the other life, 47;
+    spirits are near their own earth, 1, 42, 47, 139;
+    where there is an earth, there is man, 112;
+    earths are only apparently distant in the other world, 135.
+    See also PLANETS.
+
+  ELIJAH, 82.
+
+  EMISSARY spirits, 95[2].
+
+  EMPIRES, origin of, 49[2], 90[2], 174[3].
+
+  ENDEAVOUR and act, 159[3].
+
+  ENSIFORM cartilage, 111[4].
+
+  ESSE and existere, 159[3].
+
+  EUROPEAN spirits, 61[2].
+
+  EUSTACHIAN tube, 87.
+
+  EVIL shows up good, 77;
+    every man born into evil, 170;
+    evils all flow from the love of self, 174[2].
+
+  EXTERNALS (The) of life are kept closed after death, and the
+          internals of life are opened, 80.
+
+  EYE, its correspondence, 22.
+
+
+  FACES, on Jupiter, 52;
+    effect of counterfeiting on the face, 53;
+    how changed in course of time, 54[3], 88;
+    apparition of a face, 76;
+    when it acts in unity with the thought, 88;
+    in ancient times the face received influx from the cerebellum, 88.
+
+  FAITH, no, with mere professors, 39;
+    compelled faith does not inhere, 160.
+
+  FALSITY, all, flows from evil, 174[2].
+    See also TRUTHS.
+
+  FEAR can be excited in anyone by evil spirits, 72.
+
+  FIRE, its signification in the Word, 52[4];
+    infernal fire, 52[4];
+    the fiery [sphere] around the Lord in the spiritual Sun, 170[2].
+
+  FLAME, apparition of a, 21;
+    signification of, 94[3];
+    flaming object, 94;
+    flaming radiance, 171.
+
+  FOOD should be prepared with a view to use, 58.
+
+
+  GENIUS of men, how known, 80.
+
+  GENTILES in the other life, 118.
+
+  GIANTS on Venus, 108.
+
+  GLORIFICATION by choirs, 61[3].
+
+  GOD cannot be comprehended except under the Human Form, 7;
+    uncomprehended, cannot be believed in, 118;
+    under the Human Form is the Lord, 121.
+
+  GOLDEN Age, 49.
+
+  GOOD is known from evil, 77.
+
+  GOODNESS of disposition, how manifested, 50.
+
+  GOVERNING spirits of Jupiter, 72, 73.
+
+  GOVERNMENTS unknown on other earths, 143;
+    origin of, 49[4], 90[2], 174[2].
+
+  GRAND MAN, constitution of, 9.
+
+  GUARDS, 128.
+
+  GULFS, 128.
+
+
+  HAND, signification of, 94[3].
+
+  HAPPINESS of the angels is from mutual communication of their
+          goods, 15.
+
+  HARLOTS on other earths, 147.
+
+  HEAT signifies love, 41;
+    does not arise from nearness to the sun, 45.
+    The heat and light from the spiritual sun, 170[2].
+
+  HEAVEN corresponds to the Lord, 5;
+    before the Lord it is a Man in a large effigy, called the Grand
+          Man, 5;
+    its immensity, 5, 168;
+    resembles one Man, 9;
+    how it became removed from man, 49[4];
+    is the end of creation, 112, 126;
+    is distinguished into two kingdoms, 169[2].
+
+  HORSES, signification of, 60, 82.
+    The "White Horse," 60, 82.
+
+  HUMAN. How the Lord made His Human Divine, 159[3].
+
+  HUMAN FORM (The) is the form of the Divine, 121, 159;
+    of heaven, 5;
+    of every angel and spirit, 1, 123.
+    Adoration of God under the Human Form, 7.
+
+  HUMAN RACE (The) is from numberless earths, 2;
+    is the seminary of heaven, 3, 30.
+
+  HUMILIATION of spirits of Mercury, 37;
+    of spirits of Mars, 91[3].
+
+  HYPOCRISY is not allowed in the other life, 54[3].
+
+
+  IDEAS, material, 38;
+    angelic, 167;
+    spiritual, 169[4];
+    are open in the other life, 158[2];
+    importance of the idea concerning God, 158[2].
+
+  IDOLATERS, 142.
+
+  IMAGINATIVE [part or faculty] of thought, 64.
+
+  IMMENSITY of heaven, 5, 168.
+
+  INFESTATION by spirits, 61[2].
+
+  INFLUX manifests quality, 50;
+    is spiritual, 102[5].
+
+  INSTINCT, 96.
+
+  INSTRUCTING spirits of Jupiter, 72-78.
+
+  INSTRUMENTAL and principal, 159[3].
+
+  INTELLECT (The) is according to the reception of light, 131.
+
+  INTERNALS. See under EXTERNALS.
+
+
+  JESUITS, 61[2].
+
+  JUPITER (The planet), 46-84.
+    Population and fertility, 48.
+    Goodness and wisdom of the inhabitants, 49, 62;
+    their care of their faces, 53, 54;
+    their manner of walking, 55;
+    their nakedness, 56;
+    their position in bed, 57;
+    their repasts, 58;
+    their Divine Worship, 65-69;
+    representation of spirits and angels in the Grand Man, 64;
+    their perception, 67;
+    intercourse between inhabitants and spirits, 70-78;
+    chastising and instructing spirits, 72-78;
+    angels of their interior heaven, and their different kinds of
+          speech, 80;
+    how their spirits become angels, 82, 88;
+    how they die, 84;
+    their age, 84[2].
+
+
+  KEENNESS of vision, 140.
+
+  KINGDOMS, origin of, 49[4], 90[2], 174[2];
+    celestial and spiritual, 169[2].
+
+  KNEE, 156.
+
+  KNOWLEDGES have respect to uses, 18;
+    are only instrumental means, 18;
+    their communication among spirits of Mercury, 25.
+
+
+  LAMBS, signification of, 33, 34.
+
+  LAMPS, signification of, 33.
+
+  LAST JUDGMENT, 165, 171[3].
+
+  LEARNED in the other life, 38[2], 67, 114.
+
+  LIFE, the, follows every one after death, 30, 51;
+    man can be let into former state of life, 38[3];
+    life itself is actually derived from love, 52[4];
+    those only have spiritual life who are in heavenly love, 96;
+    state of life, 135.
+
+  LIGHT signifies wisdom, 41;
+    in heaven, 41, 131;
+    the light of this world is darkness to spirits, 135[2];
+    the light of heaven enlightens the understanding of angels, 41,
+    but is darkness to man, 135[2];
+    light in the celestial and spiritual kingdoms, 169[2];
+    the light from the spiritual sun is the Divine Truth, 170.
+
+  LIKENESS of life conjoins, 127[2].
+
+  LIPS, speech by the, 53, 54.
+
+  LOGICIANS, 38[2].
+
+  LONGITUDINAL SINUS, 95[2].
+
+  LORD (The) is the sun of heaven, 40, 170;
+    is the only God, 98, 99;
+    seen in the midst of the sun by spirits of Mercury, of our
+          Earth, and of Jupiter, 40, 170;
+    by spirits of Mars, 91;
+    seen under an angelic form by spirits of Saturn, 98.
+
+  LOVE is the fire of life, 52[4];
+    a love contains in itself all power of knowing, 96;
+    parental love grows in descending, 174;
+    celestial and spiritual love, 94[3];
+    conjugial love, 163;
+    love to God and towards the neighbour is man's peculiar love,
+          96[2];
+    what these loves consist in, 169[4];
+    love of self, its nature, 174[2];
+    love of self and love of the world necessitated the formation of
+          governments, 90.
+
+
+  MAN as to his essence is a spirit, 1[2], 123.
+    A man whose interiors are opened by the Lord, can speak with
+          spirits, 1[2];
+    man as to his interiors is in the midst of spirits and angels, 1;
+    cannot see anything in the other life, 135[2];
+    corresponds to Heaven, 5, 9;
+    does not rise as to his body, 159[3];
+    man after death becomes a spirit, 47, 123, 160;
+    after death is in the human form as before, 123;
+    after death has the memory of all his concerns in the world, 127;
+    how distinguished from beasts, 96[2];
+    is not born into his peculiar loves, 96[2];
+    is the end of creation, 112, 126;
+    was born for heaven, 114;
+    was created to live in both worlds, 135[4];
+    the natural and spiritual man, 102.
+
+  MARRIAGES, 178.
+
+  MARS (The planet). The spirits are the best of all, 85;
+    speech and character, 87;
+    representation in the Grand Man, 88;
+    life, 90;
+    Divine Worship, 91;
+    humiliation, 91;
+    body, clothing, and nourishment, 93.
+
+  MATERIAL things drag the mind downwards, 13.
+
+  MEDIUM between the Intellectual and the Voluntary, 88.
+
+  MEMBRANE, inner, of the skull, 95[6].
+
+  MEMORY, of spirits of Mercury, 10, 17, 24, 31;
+    of spirits of Venus, 107;
+    spirits enter into man's, 11, 13;
+    of spirits, 14, 29;
+    is permanent after death, 127, 160.
+
+  MERCURY (The planet). Representation in the Grand Man, 11;
+    desire for knowledges, 13;
+    conceit, 16, 37;
+    deficiency in judgment, 17;
+    knowledges alone loved, apart from uses, 6, 18, 101, 139;
+    instantaneous judgment 22;
+    rapid speech, 22, 23;
+    permitted to wander through the universe 6, 24, 25, 101, 139;
+    perfection of memory, 35;
+    instruction of inhabitants by spirits, 35;
+    perception, 39;
+    body and clothing, 44;
+    apparent size of the sun, 45;
+    temperature of the earth, 45.
+
+  MERIT belongs to the Lord alone, 70[5].
+
+  METAPHYSICIANS, 38[2].
+
+  MIDDLE SENSE between the spiritual and the natural man, 102.
+
+  MIND (_animus_). All things belonging to the mind are exhibited
+          under some natural form in the body, 163.
+
+  MIND (The) (_mens_) comports itself according to the interior
+          state of the body, 58[2].
+
+  MIRACLE of miracles, 135[3].
+
+  MONKS, 169, 172, 173.
+
+  MOONS, 3[2], 42, 112, 126.
+
+  MOST ANCIENT CHURCH was a celestial church, 85.
+
+  MOST ANCIENT PEOPLE, 49;
+    spoke by the face and lips, 54[2], 87[3].
+
+  MOST ANCIENT TIMES, 54[2].
+
+  MOTIONS in the other life, 125.
+
+
+  NAKEDNESS is no shame to those who are chaste, 56, 176.
+
+  NATURAL LIGHT gives no information on spiritual subjects, 114.
+
+  NATURAL MAN, his character, 102[4,5].
+
+  NATURAL AND EXTERNAL SENSE is the ultimate, 122.
+
+  NAVIGATION, 116.
+
+
+  OLD MAN, apparition of, 76.
+
+  OPPOSITES, their use, 35.
+
+
+  PALLAS, 38[6].
+
+  PAPERS, printed, 28.
+
+  PERCEPTION, of spirits of Mercury, 89;
+    is impaired by conceit, 62[2];
+    perception of good from evil, 77;
+    is lost in the Christian world, 158[3];
+    is rare on our Earth, 169[3].
+
+  PHILOSOPHY, 38[3].
+
+  PLANETS are inhabited, 3;
+    their situation in the other life, 42, 86;
+    do not appear to any spirit, 105.
+
+  PLURALITY of worlds, 2.
+
+  PREACHER, 157, 158, 161, 162.
+
+  PRESENCE in the other life results from likeness of state, 135.
+
+  PREY, delight of eating, 108.
+
+  PRINCIPAL and instrumental, 159[3].
+
+  PRINTING, art of, 81;
+    was for the sake of the Word, 113-122, 136, 155;
+    unknown on other earths, 155;
+    printed papers seen, 28.
+
+  PROCEEDING (Divine), 159.
+
+  PROGRESSIONS in the other life, 125, 127[2].
+
+  PROPRIUM is nothing but evil, 170, 174[2].
+
+  PUNISHING SPIRIT, 154.
+
+  PUNISHMENTS inflicted by spirits, 72, 154.
+
+
+  QUALITY of spirits manifested by influx, 50.
+
+
+  REGENERATION, 169[4].
+
+  REPRESENTATION of objects in the other life, 32.
+
+  RESPIRATION, spirits and angels have, 87[4];
+    of spirits of Mars, 87[4].
+
+  RESURRECTION of man, 159[3];
+    of the Lord, 159[3];
+    belief concerning, 165.
+
+  REVELATION on Jupiter, 65;
+    on this Earth and on others, 113-122, 136, 155, 175.
+
+  RICHES, use and abuse of, 62[4].
+
+  RIGHT (The) in the other life is towards the south, 168.
+
+  RIGHTEOUSNESS belongs to the Lord alone, 70[5].
+
+  RING of Saturn, 3[2], 100, 104.
+
+
+  SAINTS on Jupiter, 70.
+
+  SATELLITES, 3[2], 42, 112, 126.
+
+  SATURN (The planet). Character of the spirits, 97;
+    worship, 98;
+    representation in the Grand Man, 102;
+    manners and customs, 103;
+    ring or belt, 3[2], 100, 104.
+
+  SCIENCES are not known on Jupiter, 62;
+    are cultivated on our Earth only, 136;
+    on our Earth are means of opening the intellectual sight, 62[3],
+      and also of closing it, 68;
+    are spiritual riches, 62[4];
+    analytical science, 38[4].
+
+  SCHOOLMEN, 38[3], 62.
+
+  SEMINAL VESICLES, 79.
+
+  SENSE, natural and external, 122;
+    the internal sense without an external would be like a house
+          without a foundation, 122.
+
+  SENSUAL, 127[4], 148;
+    represented by serpents, 148.
+
+  SEPARATE. See under SOCIETY.
+
+  SERPENTS, 148.
+
+  SIGHT, opening of spiritual, is effected by removal of bodily,
+          165[4];
+    keenness of sight, 140.
+
+  SINCERITY prevailed in the Most Ancient times, 54[2].
+
+  SINUS, Longitudinal, 95.
+
+  SOCIETY, living in, and living separate, 49, 103, 173, 174;
+    an angelic society, 171[3].
+
+  SORCERESSES, 137, 147.
+
+  SOUL is the spirit of man, and is the man himself, and in the
+          human form, 1;
+    soul and body, 159[3].
+
+  SPACES and distances, origin of, 125;
+    space and time, 127[4].
+
+  SPEECH, verbal, is material, 17, 54;
+    of spirits, 22;
+    by the lips, 53, 54;
+    angelic, 54[2];
+    of Most Ancient people, 54, 87;
+    of angels of Jupiter, 80;
+    of spirits of Mars, 87, 95[3].
+
+  SPHERES, 64, 148;
+    collision of spheres produces anxiety, 148.
+
+  SPIRIT (The) of man is the man himself, and in the human form, 1.
+
+  SPIRITS and angels are all from the human race, 1, 30;
+    the spirits with man possess all things of his memory, 13;
+    spirits are near their own earth, 1, 42, 47, 139;
+    spirits of one earth are separated from those of another, 86;
+    their character determined by their previous life, 30;
+    are distinguished by their situation relatively to the human
+          body, 156;
+    spirits and angels do not see the things in this world, 52[6],
+          135[2], but can see them through a man specially prepared,
+          135[2];
+    are all in the human form, 128;
+    intercourse with, in ancient times, 158[3], 160;
+    danger of intercourse with spirits at the present day, 1;
+    spirits of our Earth, see under EARTH.
+
+  SPIRITUAL MAN inflows in to the natural, 102[5].
+
+  SPIRITUAL SENSE, 33.
+
+  SPLEEN, 132.
+
+  SPRING, perpetual, 177.
+
+  STARS are suns, 4, 126;
+    signification of, 50, 72[2].
+
+  STATE, diversity of, causes separation, 86;
+    the state of life, what, 135.
+
+  STRIATED, 95[5].
+
+  SUBJECTS, 95[2].
+
+  SUN (The) in the Word signifies the Lord as to the Divine Love, 40.
+
+  SUN OF HEAVEN (The) is the Lord, 40;
+    only appears to the angels, 170[2].
+
+  SUN OF THIS WORLD (The) is not seen in the other life, 40, 42, 105.
+
+  SWEDENBORG's peculiar state, 1, 124, 125, 126[3], 135, 165.
+
+  SYSTEMS, 4, 126.
+
+
+  TASTE (The). Consequence of its ruling in the body, 58[2].
+
+  TEMPLES, 150, 151.
+
+  THOUGHT is made manifest after death, 30;
+    how manifested in the face, 54;
+    the thought flows from the affection, and as it were in it, 95;
+    thought and speech ought to be one, 158;
+    effects of thinking from the sensuals of the body, 165.
+
+  THUNDER, 111.
+
+  TIME and space, 127[4].
+
+  TRANSLATION as to the spirit to distant places, 125, 127[2], 138,
+          157, 168.
+
+  TRAVELLING, 169.
+
+  TREES, Temples of, 151.
+
+  TRINITY, 158, 159.
+
+  TRUTH. See DIVINE TRUTH.
+
+  TRUTHS and falsities represented by stars, 50, 72[2].
+
+  TYPES. See PRINTING.
+
+
+  UNBELIEF, modern, 124.
+
+  UNDERSTANDING (The) is the internal sight, 22.
+
+  UNDERSTANDING AND WILL, 169[3].
+
+  UNIVERSE, Earths in, 2, 3, 6, 26.
+
+  UNLIKENESS of life disjoins, 127[2].
+
+  USES ought to be the ends of knowledges, 18.
+
+
+  VENUS (The planet). Two kinds of men, 43, 106-109;
+    representation of, in the Grand Man, 43, 107.
+
+  VESICLES, Seminal, 79.
+
+  VISIONS, 175.
+
+
+  WISDOM of the angels is from the mutual communication of their
+          goods, 15;
+    is always growing with angels, 29;
+    the first step towards wisdom, 37;
+    wisdom on Jupiter, 62.
+
+  WOLF, 38.
+
+  WORD on our Earth, why printed, 81, 113-122, 136.
+
+  WORSHIP, not possible without an idea, 7;
+    remains implanted in man's interior life, 142;
+    Divine worship on other earths, 7, 130, 141;
+    on Jupiter, 65-69;
+    on Mars, 91;
+    on Saturn, 98;
+    on Venus, 107;
+    on the First earth, 130;
+    on our Earth, 141, 142;
+    on the Third earth, 153, 154;
+    on the Fourth earth, 158;
+    on the Fifth earth, 175;
+    adoration of God under the Human Form, 7.
+
+  WRITING has existed on our Earth from the most ancient times, 115.
+
+
+  XIPHOID CARTILAGE, 111[4].
+
+
+
+
+INDEX OF SCRIPTURE REFERENCES.
+
+
+  1 Samuel                    Nos.
+    xxx. 16,                  108
+
+  Matthew
+    v. 37,                    169[2]
+    xxiv. 30,                 171[3]
+    xxviii. 18,           91, 159[3]
+
+  Mark
+    xiii. 26,                 171[3]
+
+  Luke
+    xxi. 27,                  171[3]
+    xxiv. 39,                 159[3]
+
+  John
+    i. 1-3, 14, 18,           122
+    v. 37,                    141
+    x. 30,                    141
+    xiv. 7, 9-11,             141
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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