8545. There were spirits from the planet Jupiter present with me while I was reading Chapter 17 of John, about the Lord's love and His glorification. When they heard the things written there, holiness took possession of them and they declared that everything there was Divine. Yet at that time spirits belonging to our planet who were unbelievers were constantly raising stumbling-blocks, saying that He had been born a child, lived as a person, looked like any person, was crucified, and so on. But the spirits belonging to the planet Jupiter paid no attention to any of this. They said that their devils whom they abhor are such, adding that nothing heavenly whatever is fixed in their minds, only what is earthly, which they called slag. They had discovered this to be so from the fact that when the spirits from our planet heard that there were people on theirs who went naked lewdness instantly took possession of their thoughts, and they gave no consideration whatever to their heavenly life, about which they also heard then, 8375.