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 The natural sun is invisible to those in the spiritual world, for there efflux from the Lord appears as a sun. Hence the Word says, "The city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof."

In speaking of the Creator as a sun, let us not lose sight of the fact that that sun is essentially God in His Divine Humanity, and that the elements of its efflux are unperverted human qualities. As the body receives heat and light from the sun, so the soul receives love and wisdom from the Creator. Affection and thought are from the substance and activity of spiritual atmospheres, affecting the soul just as heat and light are from the substance and the activity of nature's atmospheres. This has been demonstrated in particulars in the Prologue. The spiritual atmosphere proximate to the Creator is so akin to His own substance that it is actuated from the activity in Himself. The activity in Him being life itself, the character which it imparts must be that of Himself, which is Divine human nature. The atmospheres proximate to Him are therefore charged with Divine human