Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There eBook

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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 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 168 pages of information about Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There.

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.

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