people who are wise. You too can unite them if you focus on the Lord
and remove evils.”
Since they understood this point, I pulled some branches from a
grapevine and held them out to these people. “Do you believe these are
coming to you from me or from the Lord?” I said.
They said, “They are coming from the Lord by means of you.”
The branches in their hands suddenly grew grapes!
As I was leaving, I saw a cedar table that had a book on it. It was
under a thriving olive tree that had vines wrapped around its trunk. I
looked more closely, and the book turned out to be one written through
me called Secrets of Heaven! I told the people that the fact that we are
organs that receive life rather than life itself was fully demonstrated in
that book; the book also shows that life itself cannot be fabricated, and
thus cannot reside as a fabricated thing within a person, any more than
light can in an eye.
The fourth memorable occurrence.I looked over to a seacoast in the spir- 462
itual world. There I saw a magnificent harbor. I went to it and examined it
more closely. There were large and small vessels there carrying merchandise
of every different kind. Boys and girls were sitting on them distributing
the wealth to anyone who wanted it. They said, “We are waiting to see our
beautiful sea turtles. They will soon be coming up out of the sea to us.”
Then I saw the sea turtles, large and small. They had little baby sea
turtles riding on their shells, looking around at the surrounding islands.
The parent turtles had two heads. One head was large and was covered in
a shell like the shell on their body, which made them look reddish. The
other head was small like a normal turtle’s head. They would retract this
smaller head into the front part of their body. By an unseen method, they
would also put this smaller head inside their larger head.
I kept my focus, however, on their large, reddish heads. I noticed that
these heads had faces like those of human beings. They were talking with
the boys and girls on the seats in the boats and licking the children’s
hands. Then the boys and girls began stroking the sea turtles and giving
them things: rich, wonderful food, and also expensive gifts such as silk
for clothing, cypress wood for building material, purple cloth for beauti-
fication, and scarlet dye for dying cloth.
[ 2 ] When I saw these things, I was eager to know what they meant,
because I knew that everything visible in the spiritual world is a corre-
spondence and represents something spiritual having to do with feelings
and thoughts.
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