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