Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 8247

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8247. The reason why they liked the cheerful and smiling faces was that almost everyone's face on their planet looks like that. This is so because they do not worry at all about anything in the future, and they are not bothered about worldly things. For these are what bring sorrow and worry to people's minds and therefore to their faces; and in the case of those who are not good, even if cheerfulness and smiles are on their faces these are only skin-deep, and are not present inwardly, within their fibres. The inhabitants of Jupiter are different from this. One reason why they liked the faces which jutted out around the lips is that when they speak they do so for the most part by means of the face, in particular by means of the area around the lips, and another reason is that they never dissemble, that is, speak differently from what they think. They do not therefore coerce their face but allow it freedom of expression. But people who since childhood have learned to dissemble are different. Their face is for that reason controlled from within to prevent anything of what they think from shining out from it. Outwardly it is not allowed freedom of expression, but is held ready to be given freedom of expression or to be controlled as craftiness dictates. An examination of the fibres round about the lips will establish the truth of the matter, for in that area there is a multiplicity of interwoven and interlocking groups of fibres. These have not been created merely for eating and uttering spoken words, but also for expressing ideas in the mind.


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