9791. When the Lord allows it, a person who is in the spirit can see the things to be met with on a planet to which he is near. For space does not exist in the next life, nor therefore any distance to separate from one another those whose states are alike, as accords with what has been stated previously in 9579-9581. What has happened to me in the spirit has been like the experiences of spirits belonging to certain planets in our solar system who have been permitted by the Lord to see through my eyes many things on our planet, a subject dealt with several times before.