222. THAT THREE SOLAR ATMOSPHERES OPERATE IN THE NATURAL MIND, BUT NOT IN THE MORE INTERIOR MIND: BUT THAT GOD MESSIAH IS THE SUN IN THE MORE INTERIOR AND INMOST MIND There are four natural spheres arising from the sun. The atmosphere which produces hearing is known; a purer atmosphere separate from the aerial is that which produces sight or visual images by the wonderful reflections of all objects. How far this atmosphere penetrates into the natural mind, and whether it also presents material ideas, as they are called, or phantasies and imaginations, cannot as yet be quite evident, but from many things it appears highly probable. This then will be the first atmosphere that reigns in the natural mind. Another atmosphere - the still purer ether - is that which produces the forces of magnets, which reign not only about the magnet in particular, but also about the whole globe, but there is no need to describe to what extent. It there produces the situation of the whole terraqueous globe according to the poles of the world, and many things known in the world about the magnetic elevations and inclinations. In the natural mind this atmosphere seems to produce reasonings, and with these there ought still to be what is spiritual in order that they may live, as there must be in the case of sight and of each of the senses in order that they may perceive. The purest ethereal sphere is the one that is universal in the whole world, which is presented around the reasonings of the same mind; hence that mind is called the natural mind, and its interior operations, when perverse, are called reasonings, but when according to order, simply reason, and it is a species of thoughts, owing to spiritual influx. These spheres are of the sun, and may be called solar, and thus natural. As regards the more interior mind, however, in it there is nothing of such a quality, that is, natural, but there is what is spiritual, and in the inmost mind, what is celestial; these things are produced by God Messiah alone and are living, and are thus to be called spiritual and celestial spheres. We conversed this morning concerning these things, an angel speaking with me, and so I was confirmed. 1747, Oct. 27, o.s.