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The Earth

  • The Earth · Chapter 70

    ← The Earth · Contents The Kingdom of God and rebirth (20 April 1847) 1. Of course, there are many who say: Seeking the kingdom of God would be right if it were easier and more effective to find and if somewhere in a church or other Christian community a real right way to the…

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  • The Earth · Chapter 7

    ← The Earth · Contents The nourishment and rotation of the Earth (11 January 1847) 1. Since the earth is in a way a great organic animal-body, it must take food, to continue to exist; but in order to take food, as with every animal, or even as with every plant, either a mouth or…

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  • The Earth · Chapter 23

    ← The Earth · Contents The Earth’s atmosphere and precipitation (3 February 1847) 1. That the sun is easily understandable only the supporter, but not the so completely actual self-giver of the light, is easily illuminated from the fact that the sun first takes up the light from the innumerable suns on it's shining surface,…

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  • The Earth · Chapter 39

    ← The Earth · Contents The governing spirits of the lower region of the air (27 February 1847) 1. Wherever a great business is carried on, however it may be arranged, there must be managers employed in the business, who order and direct everything, and keep the machines in order, and measure the forces in…

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  • The Earth · Chapter 55

    ← The Earth · Contents Satan’s repatriation and redemption (26 March 1847) 1. If the matter is like this, some might say: In this way, the desired improvement of the first fallen spirit and his helpers looks very slim; for if, in a certain way, the most depraved part of his soul will remain as…

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  • The Earth · Chapter 71

    ← The Earth · Contents True and false prophets (22 April 1847) 1. Someone could ask here again and say: So one can always give fullest faith to a born-again, if he predicts future things, or should also such prediction be put into a little doubt? – To this I say: If the born- again…

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  • The Earth · Chapter 85

    ← The Earth · Contents Reason and purpose of these narrations to Lorber; the otherworldly author; Replies to criticism (May 15, 1847) Original content summary: Again about the "hay and straw" for the world scholars. The goal of this instruction – gives them matter for ruminating. This description of the peoples is given according to…

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  • The Earth · Chapter 6

    ← The Earth · Contents The centers of gravity and the fluids of the Earth (5 January 1847) 1. If you were able to look through a tree trunk from it's core to the outer bark at once with eyes that magnify like a powerful microscope, and thus also from the lowest root fiber up…

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  • The Earth · Chapter 22

    ← The Earth · Contents The twelve heavenly constellations and their effect (1 February 1847) 1. Among many other things you have read, you will have found in some old calendars, that the so-called twelve signs of the heavens have some influence on the vegetative power of the earth, just as it is here and…

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  • The Earth · Chapter 38

    ← The Earth · Contents The first, lowest region of the air 1. The first region, which is naturally the lowest, occupies the very place where the natural atmospheric air, in which plants, animals and humans live, rests above the surface of the earth; the spiritual is so closely interwoven with the natural, that a…

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