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 draws similar things together and drives dissimilar ones apart.

Swedenborg's statement, then, that there are no times and spaces in the spiritual world, is qualified by the statement, that they are not fixed times and spaces, such as we have here, but apparent times and spaces wholly different in origin and in signification from ours.

Time and space come with a finite creation. The moment souls are created, finited, placed apart from God and exist, time and space spring up about them. Why? Because they are finite. If any one of them were infinite, he would be God, without time and space. Man is finite; he feels limitations. He reaches forward; he collides with another finite. He looks abroad; he is met by the horizon.

The horizon has a deep significance. It is the badge, the type, the proof of our finiteness. It contracts or expands indefinitely according to our spiritual states. We can never get out of it. It is the periphery of our universe. There is no horizon, however, to the eye of God.

The fact that there are times and spaces in this world and apparent times and spaces in the next, is evidence of our finiteness, is proof that we are