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
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_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_
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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
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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.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planet
- 2: Because they reflect the sun's light lumen
- 3: But in the starry heaven beyond it
- 4: Which on our Earth is called the planet Mercury
- 5: Carry the mind animus upwards
- 6: The spirits of Mercury have a common saying
- 7: Being a prompt and rapid speaker
- 8: And thus that they are in interior light lumen
- 9: When the spirits of Mercury heard these things
- 10: They transmute them into others
- 11: Inasmuch as the spirits of Mercury abound in knowledges
- 12: Thus for the sake of uses apart from worldly considerations
- 13: I conversed with him on analytical science
- 14: Then the spirits from the earth Mercury
- 15: Were in concord with the spirits of Mercury
- 16: And whether they are like the men homines on our Earth
- 17: That men then lived distinguished into clans
- 18: Thus the former signify disagreement
- 19: And also because they never counterfeit
- 20: The affections of the mind animus
- 21: Should deride and think lasciviously
- 22: Footnote aa The horse signifies the Intellectual
- 23: The spirits of the earth Jupiter understood this perfectly
- 24: Footnote cc A spiritual sphere
- 25: It had inflowed from some spirits from our Earth
- 26: Saying that they themselves are mediatory lords
- 27: Wherefore when they are cutting wood
- 28: There are spirits who chastise
- 29: After chastisement and instruction
- 30: For in those vesicles the semen is collected
- 31: And the fourth like rarefied air
- 32: Except on account of leaving their conjugial consorts
- 33: At a greater or lesser distance hh
- 34: Thus of the cerebrum towards the cerebellum kk
- 35: Are dissociated and left to themselves alone
- 36: And still in the vigour of life
- 37: Celestial love is love to the Lord
- 38: If anything inflowed from any other source
- 39: And inflows into them as into its own receptacles
- 40: Some spirits of the earth Saturn came into view from afar
- 41: Footnote mm There is spiritual influx
- 42: They are greatly infested there by evils and falsities
- 43: And voices like thunders were heard thence
- 44: Footnote nn By natural light lumen alone
- 45: Have relation to natural and external sense
- 46: Neither can he be consociated with them
- 47: What would this be for the Creator of the universe
- 48: Concerning the earths in the starry heaven
- 49: Footnote uu There is much light in the heavens
- 50: But nevertheless spirits and angels
- 51: Which are not cultivated elsewhere
- 52: When he is conjoined with the Lord
- 53: Consequently to the corporeal Sensual
- 54: In most cases like a dusky cloud
- 55: But on the earth in lowly cottages
- 56: Had been a prelate and a preacher
- 57: And this also from an interior perception
- 58: Footnote yy From the Creed of Athanasius
- 59: Consequently in the form of conjugial love
- 60: Think from external sensual things
- 61: The fifth earth in the starry heaven
- 62: Falsities may appear as truths
- 63: Hence they apperceived that I was in the truth
- 64: At another time in a luminosity verging into obscurity
- 65: That there are two kinds of dominion
- 66: Inasmuch as man's proprium is nothing but evil
- 67: Man's proprium consists in loving himself more than God
- 68: And to whom his mind animus draws him
- 69: Difference between celestial and spiritual
- 70: Evils all flow from the love of self
- 71: INSTRUCTING spirits of Jupiter
- 72: Light in the celestial and spiritual kingdoms
- 73: Representation in the Grand Man
- 74: SCIENCES are not known on Jupiter
- 75: Divine worship on other earths