1) Being desirous of knowing what kind of people are living on other planets, I have also been permitted to become acquainted with the inhabitants of Jupiter. For if there are planets, there must be rational and intelligent beings upon them, who relate everything they see to the glory of the creator - since nothing can exist in the universe that does not finally go back to the glory of God - and thus who are able by these means, to perceive things heavenly and Divine. Their spirits are of three kinds. They who are of the lowest or reasoning kind, are black, or else dark, and they seek for those by whom they may be led to the One Only Lord, so that they may be changed, that is, become heavenly. 2) Besides this nation of spirits, there are also others whose faces shine like the Light from candles, and for the rest are dark; and they sit like idols, and let themselves be worshipped by slaves they had kept in the life of the body, for whom they call themselves intermediaries to the one only Lord in heaven, and they do not want them to get there except through their mediation. 3) Those whose faces are thus fiery are called saints,** because they had convinced themselves that they had led a holy life in the body; as a result of this, their face shines and they are distinguished from the rest. 4) The best of these [spirits] are their angels, who are not of a white, but of a most beautiful sky blue color, interwoven with little sparks of gold. These are their angels and constitute their angelic heaven, and these they call the intermediary to the One Only Lord of the Universe. * Paragraphs 517-18 have been placed, as indicated by the author, after 521. ** The Latin is "sancti," meaning "holy ones."