He unites the communities of heaven so that they are like one person
before him. Likewise he brings the hordes of hell together so they are like
one devil. He separates hell from heaven with a great chasm, so that hell
will not inflict violence on heaven and heaven will not inflict torment on
hell. (The more heaven flows in, the more those in hell are tormented.) If
God were not using his omnipotence in every moment to do all the
above, so much wildness would come over people that they could never
be restrained by the laws of any design and the human race would perish.
This and more would happen if God were not the divine design and were
not omnipotent in his design.”
When they heard this, the people who had been wearing hats left
with them under their arms, praising God.
In the spiritual world the intelligent wear hats. The unintelligent
wear caps because they are bald; their baldness means that they are dense.
The people with caps went away to the left, but the people with hats
went to the right.The Creation of the Universe
75 Because this first chapter is on God the Creator, there should also be
some mention of his creation of the universe, just as the next chapter on
the Lord the Redeemer also needs to address redemption. We cannot,
however, get a fair idea of the creation of the universe unless some pre-
liminary global concepts first bring our intellect into a state of percep-
tion. These global concepts are as follows:
[ 2 ] ( 1 ) There are two worlds: a spiritual world where there are angels
and spirits, and a physical world where there are people.
( 2 ) Both worlds have suns. The sun in the spiritual world is pure love
from Jehovah God, who is within that sun. The spiritual sun radiates
heat and light. The essence of the heat it radiates is love, and the essence
of the light is wisdom. That heat and that light have an effect on people’s
wills and intellects. The heat affects the will; the light affects the intellect.
The sun in the physical world is pure fire. As a result, the heat and
the light from it are dead. Physical heat and light serve as a clothing for
spiritual heat and light and as a device through which spiritual heat and
light reach people.
[ 3 ] ( 3 ) In the spiritual world both the heat and the light that radiate
from the sun are substantial and are called spiritual. So are all the things
in that world that come about from that heat and light.