earth, and then said they would remain there, because the inhabitants of that part were good.  While this was taking place I was sensible of a remarkable change in the brain, and of a powerful operation from it.  From this it was given me to conclude that the spirits of Venus who are from that part of the planet, were in concord with the spirits of Mercury, and that they had relation to the memory of material things which is in concord with the memory of immaterial things, to which the spirits of Mercury have relation; hence a more powerful operation was felt from them when they were there.

44.  I was desirous of knowing what kind of face and body the men (homines) on the earth Mercury have, and whether they are like the men (homines) on our Earth.  There was then exhibited before my eyes a woman exactly resembling those who are on that earth.  Her face was beautiful, but smaller than that of the women of our Earth; she was also more slender in body, but of equal height:  her head was covered with some linen stuff, arranged without art but still in a becoming manner.  A man (vir) also was exhibited.  He, too, was more slender in body than the men (viri) of our Earth; he was clothed in a garment of dark blue fitting closely to his body, without folds or protuberances anywhere.  Such, I was told, were the personal form and clothing of the men (homines) of that earth.  Afterwards there were exhibited some kinds of their oxen and cows, which did not, indeed, differ much from those on our Earth, except that they were smaller, and approximated in some measure to the stag and hind species.

45.  They were also questioned about the sun of the system, how it appears from their earth.  They said that it appeared large, and larger there than from other earths; they said that they knew this from the ideas of other spirits respecting the sun.  They said further that they enjoyed a middle temperature, neither too hot nor too cold.  It was then given me to tell them, that it has been so provided for them by the Lord, in order that they might not be exposed to excessive heat from the circumstance of their earth being in greater proximity to the sun than the other earths, since heat does not arise from nearness to the sun, but from the height and density of the aerial atmosphere, as is evident from the cold on high mountains even in hot climates; also, that heat is varied according to the direct or oblique incidence of the sun’s rays, as is evident from the seasons of winter and summer in every region.  These are the particulars which it has been given me to know respecting the spirits and inhabitants of the earth Mercury.

THE EARTH OR PLANET JUPITER, AND ITS SPIRITS AND INHABITANTS.

46.  It has been given me to have longer intercourse with the spirits and angels of the planet Jupiter than with the spirits and angels from the other planets; and I can therefore relate more particulars respecting their state of life and respecting that of the inhabitants of that planet.  That those spirits were from that planet, was evident from many circumstances, and was also declared from heaven.