Saturday, June 15, 2024

EU 3, 4-5 - The Immensity of the Lord & of His Universe

EU 3, 4-5

He who believes,
as every one ought to believe,
that the Divine created the universe
for no other end
than that the human race may exist,
and from it heaven,
for the human race is the seminary of heaven,
must also need to believe,
that wherever there is an earth,
there are people.

. . . people may believe that in the universe
there are more earths than one,
from this, that the starry heaven is so immense,
and the stars therein are so innumerable, 
each of which in its place,
or in its world,
is a sun,
and like our sun,
in various magnitude.
Whoever duly considers,
concludes that so immense a whole
must needs be a means to an end,
which is the ultimate of creation,
which end is the kingdom of heaven,
wherein the Divine may dwell
with angels and people;
for the visible universe,
or the heaven resplendent with stars
so innumerable,
which are so many suns,
is only a means for the existence of earths,
and of men upon them,
of whom may be formed a heavenly kingdom.
From these things a rational person
must needs be led to conceive,
that so immense a means,
adapted to so great an end,
was not constituted for a race of people
and for a heaven derived from one earth only;
for what would this be to the Divine,
which is infinite,
and to which thousands,
indeed, ten thousands of earths,
all full of inhabitants,
would be small and scarce anything.

Moreover, the angelic heaven is so immense,
that it corresponds with
all the particulars with a person,
myriads corresponding to
every member, organ, and viscus,
and to every affection of each;
and it has been given to know,
that this heaven,
as to all its correspondences,
can by no means exist,
except from the inhabitants of very many earths.
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EU = Earths in the Universe

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