Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 6927

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6927. Because they move in this manner throughout the universe and as a consequence know more than others about systems and planets outside the sphere of our solar system, I have talked to them on this subject too. They said that there are very many planets in the universe, with people on them too, and that they were amazed that some, whom they refered to as people with little judgement, could suppose that the heaven of an almighty God consists of spirits and angels who come from only one planet, when yet they are so few in comparison with God's almighty power as to be scarcely anything even if there were tens of thousands of solar systems and tens of thousands of planets. These spirits went on to say that they knew of the existence of more than several hundred thousand planets in the universe; yet how many was that in comparison with the Divine who is Infinite?


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