Last Judgment (Post) (Rogers) n. 322

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322. [314.] That there are also atmospheres in the spiritual world, which is above the natural world, can be seen from the light and warmth there. These seem to the eyes and senses of angels the same as light and warmth to the eyes and senses of people. Yet angels are spiritual, while people are natural, and light and heat with their variations are impossible without atmospheres. The existence of spiritual atmospheres can be seen also from many visible sights in that world, as from the appearance of colors there, of atmospheric phenomena, of thinner and thicker clouds, and winds, as well as of weights, pressures, and therefore consistencies. Although these phenomena appear altogether similar to those which exist in the natural world, still they are spiritual and not natural-even though to angels, because angels are spiritual, they appear the same. The existence of spiritual atmospheres can be seen especially from the respiration of angels and spirits; for angels and spirits breathe the way people do in the world, only people breathe in their atmospheres, and angels and spirits breath in theirs-angels in the celestial realm breathing in their atmosphere, which is purer, and angels in the spiritual kingdom breathing in theirs, which is less pure.


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