The Earth

← The Earth · Contents The nature of matter and it’s primordial spirits 1. It has already been noted above that the purpose of matter cannot be based in it's existence. 2. That this is correct, can be easily seen by every human being from the continuous new emergence and reappearance of the same matter.…

← The Earth · Contents The nature and composition of the air (29 January 1847) 1. The water of the sea, as also in the lakes of the mainland, form a kind of compressed air in which animals can live. But this air belongs actually still to the earth-body itself, and indeed to it's outermost…

← The Earth · Contents About magical mountains 1. The fact that in earlier times people with clairvoyance certainly lived on the mountains and had contact with the spirits is still evidenced today, if not much else, by the peculiar names of the mountains. 2. In your country there are a lot of such mountains,…

← The Earth · Contents The soul and spirit in a human being (20 March 1847) 1. What concerns the natural earth, we have dealt with as precisely as possible in the natural part of this communication; but that this apparently natural earth is nothing less than natural, i.e. material, we will recognize even more…

← The Earth · Contents Influences of the spirits during the procreation of human beings (15 March 1847) 1. You have already been told so much about the nature of man, his soul and spirit, that you, so to speak, already know almost most of what concerns the whole nature of man; also the procreation…

← The Earth · Contents Ceremonial ecclesiasticism (13 April 1847) 1. What is the use of vain lamentations, of loose scolding and panting, and of thirsty acquittal of all that such an idolatrous church prescribes to keep and observe? 2. All this is of no use; once a river has flowed and become strong, it…

← The Earth · Contents Primitive inhabitants of South Africa (natives) from a spiritual point of view (May 10, 1847) Original content summary: The peoples of South Africa. Fetishists, they have neither king nor chief, but live in hordes, eat raw flesh, and drink blood. Cannibals. No articulated language. They are little good, their simplicity…

← The Earth · Contents The location and changeableness of the heart of the Earth (31 December 1846) 1. So where is this center of gravity or heart of the earth? 2. In the center not, what was already shown above, as also partly, why not; which "why not" is still more clearly explained at…

← The Earth · Contents The feeling skin of the Earth (27 January 1847) 1. As far as the tangible skin of the earth is concerned, it is crisscrossed by innumerable canals, and between these canals there are again a lot of large and smaller collecting places or containers for all kinds of liquids rising…

← The Earth · Contents About witches and witch trials (22 February 1847) 1. There will hardly be a person who has never heard of the so-called witches; for it is not so long ago that the courts still held witch trials, and under this name transported a large number of the most innocent people…