Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 8543

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8543. They do not know that their one and only Lord was born a person on our planet. They said they were not interested to know this, only that He is a Person and rules over all. When I said that on our planet He is called Christ Jesus, and that Christ means anointed or king and Jesus means Saviour, they said that they do not worship Him as a king because kingship smacks of what is worldly; but they do worship Him as their Saviour. And because the doubt was introduced by spirits from our planet as to whether their one and only Lord was the same Lord as ours, they removed that doubt by recollecting that they had seen Him in the Sun and recognized Him as the One whom they had seen on their planet regarding which see 7173. As regards our Lord's being the Sun of heaven, see 1053, 3636, 3643, 4060, 4321 (end), 5097, 7078, 7083, 7171, 7173.


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