7247. The mental picture that spirits have places the planet Venus on the left, slightly to the rear, some distance away from our planet. The expression 'mental picture that spirits have' is used because neither the sun in this world nor any planet there is visible to any spirit. Spirits have only a mental picture of them; they see them as they exist within that mental picture. The sun of this world is seen as a kind of dark patch behind them, while the planets are seen not wandering as they do in the world but in constantly fixed positions, regarding which subject, see 7171.