Divine Love and Wisdom (Rogers) n. 109

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109. The same is the case with the distance of the sun in the spiritual world, the sun which is the first emanation of the Lord's Divine love and wisdom. The truth is that there is no distance. Rather the distance is an appearance in accordance with the degree of the angels' reception of Divine love and wisdom. That distances in the spiritual world are appearances can be seen from points we demonstrated above, as from those in nos. 7-10, showing that the Divine does not exist in space, and from those in nos. 69-72, showing that the Divine fills every space and interval of space independently of space. If, then, there are no intervals of space, neither are there distances, or to say the same thing, if intervals of space are appearances, distances also are appearances, for distances are intervals of space.


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