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in accordance with most modern conclusion] he denies that the whole interior of the earth is in a glowing state, and thinks that the volcanoes receive their nourishment from melted masses in the earth's crust."[1]
Three weeks later, Swedenborg writes again to Benzelius, "I am delighted to hear that what I wrote you in my last was to your liking." He adds some further argument to show that no sudden approach to the sun is taking place. Incidentally he brings in his theory of the vortical energy which controls the solar system, and also each world in itself, but in too brief terms to be cited as a statement of the theory. At greater length he gives reasons for thinking that the sun cannot be, as some had conjectured, the abode of the damned. He would rather suspect that there is the abode of the blessed; since from the sun is all the heat, light, and life of the world, indeed the most refined elements of existence, where we might look for that which is above and within matter, and might even imagine the seat of God Himself.
- ↑ Letter of Alfred H. Stroh, May 31, 1903, in The New Philosophy.
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