The Earth

← The Earth · Contents The structure of the spleen and the preparation of blood (15 January 1847) 1. If you were to observe a small piece of an animal spleen through a good microscope, you would discover a number of small chambers, which are mostly quadrangular or cubic in content, but sometimes also form…

← The Earth · Contents Appearances in the third region of the air (8 February 1847) 1. All such phenomena, however, must not be regarded as completely similar, since among the luminous meteors there are also really some which ignite in such a way that with the ignition, a burning really takes place; but in…

← The Earth · Contents God’s work through spirits (3 March 1847) 1. Therefore, if someone has understood the matter only a little, there can be no matter at all in the most actual sense, since matter itself is only an effect of the forces, which effect appears in a kind, condition and form, and…

← The Earth · Contents The lungs and respiration of the Earth (12 January 1847) 1. You know that for the physical life not only the heart and the stomach, but also a lung is necessary. Every animal has such a respiratory tool in itself; also trees and plants must have such organs of transpiration,…

← The Earth · Contents The eye of the Earth (5 February 1847) 1. The third air region rests on the second one as if someone would pour a very pure ethereal oil over pure water, where this oil then does not mix with the water, although lying just on the water surface, not impairing…

← The Earth · Contents The activity of the spirits in the interior of the Earth (1 March 1847) 1. You have already seen in the natural representation of the earth how the earth, as an organic living being, takes it's food, digests it within itself, and then conducts the nutritive juices through innumerable organs…

← The Earth · Contents Satana’s nature and name (27 March 1847) 1. You will have already heard and read often, and still hear and read it, how this same evil spirit occurs under all kinds of names, and next to him still a lot of companions of the same light, which are called devils.…

← The Earth · Contents The forgiveness of sins and idolatry (24 April 1847) 1. Some of the so-called modern philosophers, who admittedly do not consider Me to be more than a philosopher, claim that every man has the right to remit sins according to the Christian sense, because I, as the founder of this…

← The Earth · Contents The spleen of the Earth (14 January 1847) 1. In every animal, after the lungs, one of the most important viscera – which is the real source of fire in every animal body – is the spleen. This viscera is just as necessary for the preservation of animal-life as the…

← The Earth · Contents The nature of fire (6 February 1847) 1. This third region of air, which, as already mentioned above, is the purest and therefore the most transparent, resting like an ethereal oil on the second region of air, has, in addition to the already mentioned properties, also this very special one,…