Heaven and Hell (Harley) n. 117

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117. Although the sun of the world is not seen in heaven, nor anything from that sun, yet there is a Sun there, and light and heat and all things that are in the world, with innumerable others, but not from the same origin, for the things in heaven are spiritual and those in the world natural. The Sun of heaven is the Lord, the light there is the Divine Truth and the heat the Divine Good, and those go forth from the Lord as from a Sun. From this origin are all things which come into existence and appear in the heavens. But the light and heat and things coming into existence therefrom in heaven will be treated of in the following section. Here, only the Sun there is dealt with. The reason the Lord in heaven is seen as a Sun is that He is Divine Love from which all spiritual things come into existence, as do all natural things by means of the sun of the world. That Love is what shines as a Sun.


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