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CHAPTER V.

OUR SURROUNDINGS HEREAFTER.

The subjective must for ever have its objective manifestation. Correspondence between internal and external—between state and place. Heaven is real and substantial. Sensation of a new-comer. How is heaven created? Difference between physical and spiritual externeity. Each spirit creates its own surroundings. Clothing in heaven. Houses in heaven. Cities there. What associates; what disjoins. Societies. Spiritual thought and natural thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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CHAPTER VI.

SPIRITUAL TIMES AND SPACES.

Swedenborg's metaphysics no bugbear. Mental measures of time and space. No fixed times or spaces in the spiritual world. Appearances and their meaning. How are times and spaces created? What is the horizon? Two fundamental spiritual laws. Did Joshua make the sun stand still? The impassable gulf between Abraham, and Dives. Traveling in the spiritual world. How did Swedenborg see into the planets? The spiritual sun never rises nor sets; but it appears and disappears. Morning, noon and evening in heaven. No night. Sleep and dreams. Alternation of states and its origin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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