Divine Love and Wisdom (Harleys) n. 82

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82. Something will be said here about a vacuum. I have on occasion heard angels talking with Newton about a vacuum, and saying that they could not sustain the idea of a vacuum as being nothing, because in their world which is spiritual and within or above the spaces and times of the natural world, still they feel, think, are affected, love, will, breathe, yea speak and act, which would be quite impossible in a vacuum which is nothing, since nothing is nothing, and concerning nothing not anything can be predicated. Newton said that he knew that the Divine which Is, fills all things, and that he himself knew the idea of vacuum as nothing, because that idea is destructive of all things. He exhorts those who talk with him about a vacuum to guard against the idea of nothingness, calling it a swoon, because in nothing there is no actuality of mind.


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