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1. I. THE WORLDS IN SPACE

By the Lord's Divine mercy I have had my interior faculties, which belong to my spirit, opened, so that I have been enabled to talk with spirits and angels, not only those in the vicinity of our earth, but also with those near other worlds. Since therefore I was desirous of knowing whether there were other inhabited worlds, and what they and their inhabitants were like, I was allowed by the Lord to talk and mix with spirits and angels from other worlds. With some this lasted a day, with others a week, with yet others for months. I was informed by them about the worlds they came from and in the vicinity of which they were, about the life, behaviour and religious practices of their inhabitants, and other matters worth relating about them. Since I was allowed to gain my knowledge in this fashion, I can describe them from what I have heard and seen.

[2] It needs to be known that all spirits and angels are from the human race; 1 they are near their own world, 2 and know what happens there; and they can inform someone whose interior faculties are open sufficiently to be able to talk and mix with them. A human being is in essence a spirit, 3 and associates with spirits at the interior level. 4 Consequently anyone whose interior faculties are opened by the Lord can talk with them, exactly as a man can with another man. 5 I have been permitted to do this daily for the last twelve years.

Фусноти:

1. [Swedenborg’s Footnote] There are no spirits or angels who are not from the human race (Arcana Caelestia 1880).

2. [Swedenborg’s Footnote] The spirits of each world are in the vicinity of their world, because they come from its inhabitants and share their character. It is also so that they can be of service to them (Arcana Caelestia 9968).

3. [Swedenborg’s Footnote] The soul which lives on after death is a person's spirit, which is his real personality; in the next life it appears in a completely human form (Arcana Caelestia 322, 1880-1881, 3633, 4622, 4735, 6054, 6605, 6626, 7021, 10594).

4. [Swedenborg’s Footnote] A person while still in the world is at the inner level, that is, as regards his spirit or soul, among spirits and angels of similar nature to himself (Arcana Caelestia 2379 [2378 in original], Arcana Caelestia 3645, 4067, 4073, 4077).

5. [Swedenborg’s Footnote] A person can talk with spirits and angels; in ancient times people in our world often did so (Arcana Caelestia 67-69, 784, 1634, 1636, 7802). But nowadays it is dangerous for a person to talk with them, unless he has true faith and is guided by the Lord (Arcana Caelestia 784, 9438, 10751).

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Arcana Coelestia #7802

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7802. It is common on that planet for spirits to talk to inhabitants and instruct them, and also to chastise them if they have been behaving badly. Since this is a subject about which their angels have told me many things I would like to mention them in order. The reason why spirits there talk to people is that they concentrate much of their thought on heaven and life after death, and in comparison with this give little thought to life in the world. They know that they will be alive after death, living in a state of happiness that depends on the condition into which their internal man was brought in the world. Talking to spirits and angels was also common on our planet in ancient times, and for the same reason, that their thought was concentrated on heaven and little on the world. But in course of time that live contact with heaven was cut off, as people ceased to be internal and became external, that is, as man began to concentrate his thought on the world and little on heaven, and especially when he ceased to believe any longer in the existence of heaven or hell, or in the presence within himself of a person and spirit that lives after death. For the belief at the present day is that the body lives independently, not that it receives life from its spirit. Therefore unless people today were allowed to believe that they will rise again in their bodies they would have no belief at all in resurrection.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #10750

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10750. Exodus 36

1. And Bezalel and Aholiab, and every man wise at heart, in whom Jehovah had put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work of the service of the holy place, did according to all that Jehovah had commanded.

2. And Moses called Bezalel and Aholiab and every man wise at heart in whose heart Jehovah had put wisdom, everyone whose heart stirred him to come and do the work 1 .

3. And they took from before Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of making the holy place 2 ; and they continued to bring him freewill offerings every morning 3 .

4. And all the wise ones doing all the work of the holy place came 4 , man [by] man from his work which they were doing.

5. And they spoke to Moses, saying, The people are bringing more than enough for the service of the work which Jehovah has commanded to be done.

6. And Moses gave a command, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp 5 , saying, Let no man or woman do any more work for the offering of the holy place. And he restrained the people from bringing [any more].

7. And the work was sufficient for all the work that had to be done 6 , and there was some left over.

8. And everyone wise at heart among those doing the work made the dwelling-place with ten curtains, from fine twined linen, and violet, and purple, and twice-dyed scarlet; and the cherubs, the work of a designer he made them.

9. The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one measure.

10. And he joined five curtains together, one to another; and five curtains he joined together, one to another.

11. And he made loops from violet on the edge of the one curtain that was in the joining-place, and did the same on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second joining-place.

12. Fifty loops he made in one curtain, and fifty loops he made in the end of the curtain in the second joining-place, the loops taking themselves up one towards one another.

13. And he made fifty clasps of gold, and joined the curtains together, one to the next in the clasps; and the dwelling-place was one.

14. And he made curtains of she-goats 7 , for a tent over the dwelling-place; eleven curtains he made them.

15. The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain. The eleven curtains had one measure.

16. And he joined together five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.

17. And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the joining-place, and fifty loops he made on the edge of the curtain in the second joining-place.

18. And he made fifty clasps of bronze to join the tent together, that it might be one.

19. And he made a covering for the tent from the skins of red rams, and a covering from the skins of badgers above that.

20. And he made the boards for the dwelling-place from shittim wood, standing up 8 .

21. Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of one board.

22. There were two hands 9 to one board, connected one to the other. Thus he made all the boards of the dwelling-place.

23. And he made the boards for the dwelling-place, twenty boards for the south side 10 , southwards.

24. And he made forty bases of silver under the twenty boards, two bases under one board for its two hands 9 , and two bases under one board 11 for its two hands 9 .

25. And for the other side of the dwelling-place - on the north side 12 - he made twenty boards,

26. And their forty bases [made] from silver, two bases under one board and two bases under one board 11 .

27. And for the legs 13 of the dwelling-place towards the sea 14 he made six boards.

28. And he made two boards for the corners of the dwelling-place at the legs 15 .

29. And they were paired from below, and went together all the way up to its head, up to one ring. Thus he did for the two at the two corners.

30. And there were eight boards and their bases [made] from silver, sixteen bases - two bases [each], two bases under one board.

31. And he made bars from shittim wood, five for the boards of the first side of the dwelling-place,

32. And five bars for the boards of the second side of the dwelling-place, and five bars for the boards of the dwelling-place for the legs towards the sea 14 .

33. And he made the middle bar to pass through into the middle of the boards from end to end.

34. And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings from gold, receptacles for the bars; and he overlaid the bars with gold.

35. And he made a veil from violet, and purple, and twice-dyed scarlet, and fine twined linen; with the work of a designer he made it, with cherubs.

36. And he made for it four pillars of shittim [wood], and overlaid them with gold; [he made] their hooks from gold, and he cast four bases of silver for them.

37. And he made a screen for the tent door from violet, and purple, and twice-dyed scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer,

38. And its five pillars, and their hooks. And he overlaid their heads and their bands with gold; and their five bases [were made] from bronze.

CONTENTS

What all these things mean in the internal sense is clear from the explanation previously of Chapter Exodus 26, for they are the same things as occur there. That being so, they are passed over in the present chapter without any further explanation.

Фусноти:

1. literally, to approach the work, to do it

2. literally, of the service of the holy place, to do it

3. literally, and they brought to him still a freewill offering morning by morning

4. Reading venerunt (they came) for adduxerunt (they brought)

5. literally, And Moses commanded, and they proclaimed the voice or word in the camp

6. literally, all the work, to do it

7. i.e. goats' wool, see 9470.

8. i.e. they were vertical boards

9. i.e. tenons

10. literally, corner or angle

11. i.e. another board

12. i.e. rear parts

13. i.e. at the west end

14. i.e. the rear parts at the east end [sea]

15. i.e. the rear parts at the west end

  
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