to mean that there is no salvation except from the Lord.
There are many earths in the universe, and all of them full of
inhabitants, scarcely any of whom know that the Lord took on the
Human on our earth. Yet because they worship the Divine under a human
form they are accepted and led by the Lord. On this subject more may
be seen in the little work on The Earths in the Universe.

{Footnote 1} Difference between the good in which the heathen
are and that in which Christians are (n. 4189, 4197). Truths
with the heathen (n. 3263, 3778, 4190). The interiors cannot be
so closed up with the heathen as with Christians (n. 9256).
Neither can so thick a cloud exist with the heathen who live in
mutual charity in accordance with their religion as with
Christians who live in no charity; the reasons (n. 1059, 9256).
The heathen cannot profane the holy things of the church as the
Christians do, because they are ignorant of them (n. 1327,
1328, 2051). They have a fear of Christians on account of their
lives (n. 2596, 2597). Those that have lived well in accordance
with their religion are taught by angels and readily accept the
truths of faith and acknowledge the Lord (n. 2049, 2595, 2598,
2600, 2601, 2603, 2861, 2863, 3263).

322. Among the heathen, as among Christians, there are both wise and
simple. That I might learn about them I have been permitted to speak
with both, sometimes for hours and days. But there are no such wise
men now as in ancient times, especially in the Ancient Church, which
extended over a large part of the Asiatic world, and from which
religion spread to many nations. That I might wholly know about them
I have been permitted to have familiar conversation with some of
these wise men. There was with me one who was among the wiser of his
time, and consequently well known in the learned world, with whom I
talked on various subjects, and had reason to believe that it was
Cicero. Knowing that he was a wise man I talked with him about
wisdom, intelligence, order, and the Word, and lastly about the Lord.
[2] Of wisdom he said that there is no other wisdom than the wisdom
of life, and that wisdom can be predicated of nothing else; of
intelligence that it is from wisdom; of order, that it is from the
Supreme God, and that to live in that order is to be wise and
intelligent. As to the Word, when I read to him something from the
prophets he was greatly delighted, especially with this, that e