115. It cannot be understood in the world that the Lord could from Himself dispose all things of heaven and hell into order. But men's lack of understanding is because they think from ideas of space and distance. Space and distance in the spiritual world, however, are states of the affections and thoughts; in accordance with which are all the spaces and all the distances there. It has been granted to me to know this by experience. For, indeed, those separated to the extent of thousands and hundreds of thousands of miles have been present together when in a similar state. In the same way I, too, have been able to be present around the earths of our solar world and around earths outside that world, while yet remaining as to the body and also the spirit in its place. What could not the Lord do, Who operates all things in Himself from the Divine, and from the Divine in Himself?