Does Aristotle believe in heaven?

 

Archangel Aristotle discourses―   

My life on Earth was for many weary years, and I have been in this life, as time is counted on the Earth, for more than two thousand years―

I have not seen thy God, nor thy God's heaven―neither hell, nor the devil―

I have questioned the angels and archangels that have been here for many, many thousand years, and they have not found those things―

So I justly concluded that such things do not exist except in the erroneous opinions of ignorant (wo)men.

Is there one among you that can blame me? 

But I am not here even to speak of those things, but to tell thee about the things, which I have found―to speak of things as I found them in a long life on earth and in a longer life within the heavens. 

In this discourse I propose to show thee how the earth was prepared that thou mightest exist. 

The ring―or shell, which was thrown off from the sun, being somewhat harder than the real body of the sun, in gathering itself together by the law of attraction at its central point that it might become a round globe, cracked in pieces on its surface―

It became seamed and ridged everywhere―

It was yet equally mixed together, solid and fluid and still very soft―It had neither water―nor atmosphere.

As an apple appears to be rather a hard body until it is squeezed, so the earth must be squeezed―or baked that its water might appear.

As soon as the sun became a blazing body of light and heat, its rays struck this immature earth, and as the earth had no atmosphere to shield it, it began to bake and harden very rapidly―

As it thus hardened, the water was entirely squeezed out from the solid parts, and the solid part became solid rock. 

Thou all knowest that water seeks its level, as all other things seek their level, and it ran down and filled up all the chasms and fissures of the earth―

Now the earth, instead of being soft and equally mixed, was nothing but solid rock and water―

There was no atmosphere.

The earth, being then young was much nearer the sun than it is at the present time, for all planets, as they become mature and more perfect, recede from their parents, as all apples when they are ripe leave the tree, as all children leave their parents.

The earth, lying very near the sun was intensely hot. 

The rocks were like coals of fire―

The waters all became seething cauldrons―

A dense vapour surrounded the earth about three miles in thickness―

This was an antidote for the intense heat―

Within this water―or vapour, the air resided and was evolved from it.

Now, as the earth gradually receded from the sun, and the vapour condensed and cooled, great storms arose―terrible deluges and rushing whirlwinds, forked lightnings constantly split the rocks asunder and many of the pieces were hurled with awful force into the chasms, but all this was only perfecting the earth and rendering it more evenly balanced.

At length, all things took on a milder form.

The water was now comparatively cool.

The action of the rains and the waters kept wearing away at the rocks, and as they pulverised and separated the substances that composed the rocks, the waters carried these substances along in their embrace―

As like attracts like, the metallic substances settled in mines―or beds by themselves―

Salt and lime, and many other substances were soluble in water, and the water retained these. 

At length, the waters levelled the rocks to that extent that an ocean was formed, and after awhile, the earth, receding farther and farther away from the sun, the waters became cool enough for life to make its appearance upon the earth.

The rocks were so cool that moss and small ferns began to form upon them. 

Sponge, jellyfish, and snails began to form within the sea―

Then maggots, worms, insects and reptiles were gradually evolved―one from the other―

Then butterflies and small birds.

The ocean was gradually and constantly changing its bed―

As the ocean receded, it left rich alluvial soil, which brought forth rank tropical vegetation and vast forests―

After ages had passed, the forests were filled with wild animals―

Then the ape and gorilla―

From them, the low, squat savage appeared, and (wo)man gradually arose to his present estate.

Now, after the water had yielded up its atmosphere, the atmosphere, in its turn, yielded up its etherial―or spiritual atmosphere―

Within this, as thou all knowest, thou art at this present moment living.

It is the first spiritual atmosphere that surrounds the earth from which thou earnest.

Brothers, thou hast not, any of thee, been in this life but a short time, yet thou art well aware that I am Aristotle―

I have been in the heavens for more than two thousand years―have not only dwelt in this sphere, but in many other heavenly spheres. 

I have also been able to visit thousands of other planets and their spheres, both spiritual and heavenly―

I have not been able to find God, Heaven, Hell―or the Devil―nor yet Christ.

The earths and the first spiritual spheres around them are the lowest that I can find―from them are being gradually evolved the higher heavens.

Brothers―this is no speculative theory. 

It is as I actually find things! 

What more can I say? 

Brothers, leave this city! 

Come with me―

I will show thee all that I have seen! 

I will teach thee all that I have learned!