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