Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 4950

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4950. Slightly to the left beneath the left foot there are the kind of people who have attributed everything to nature, even though they proclaimed their belief in a supreme being who is the author of everything in the natural creation. But investigations were carried out to see whether they in fact believed in a supreme being or deity who had created all things. I perceived from their thought which was communicated to me that what they believed in was so to speak something inanimate possessing no life at all. From this it became clear that they did not acknowledge the creator of the universe but nature. They also said that they could not form any idea of a living deity.


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