The constellation
A853 Making the earth larger. Gradually extended during creation. See references to A812 in which this idea is always involved
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The same sky, in words
filed under
- Changes in the earth · A850 entry
beneath it
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- How the earth became oblong. God the Father situated on one side of the earth, the Son on the other · A851 entry
- Making the earth smaller. Earth made too large. God learns from devil by trickery how to make it smaller · A852 entry
- Opposite of present. Everything on the earth – courses of rivers, height of mountains, human reproduction, etc. – are at first the reverse of the present condition · A855 entry
- Hardening of the earth. At first it is soft, but is hardened by sun's rays · A856 entry
- Steadying the earth · A857 entry