Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 10515

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10515. They went on to say that inhabitants of the planet do not live in places high up but in lowly cottages on ground-level, because places high up are for the Lord who is in heaven and lowly ones are for people who are on earth. I was also shown their cottages. They were rectangular. Inside, next to the walls, runs a continuous couch on which they lie head to toe. In the part opposite the entrance, where there is a rounded section, stands a table, and behind the table a hearth, from which the whole chamber is lit. But there is no fire burning in that hearth; instead there is luminous wood, emitting as much light as the flames in a hearth do. They said that in the evening the logs of that wood appear with flames of fire in them like those seen in burning coal.


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