Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1035

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1035. They are also comparable to the case of the aliments or foods ingested into the stomach; for [newly-arrived] souls represent the things that are put into the stomach and broken up there. Some must be agitated roughly in the stomach, then in the intestines. Other souls are absorbed straightway into the veins, and thus easily purified; others go into the lymphatics. Some upon first entering the mouth, before passage into the stomach, are taken up by the veins and exhale into the brain, and immediately begin a purer circulation, the purer ones of them being carried through imperceptible vein-like fibers toward the brain. There are, besides, those souls who, being drawn out of the air by the lungs, fly directly to the brain. These are the purer foods of the brain. There are also some who are drawn imperceptibly through the tunics of the whole body, and then carried up toward the brain, such as little children [see 1022], some from the air, some from the ether-thus there are countless varieties. But those who are agitated by the urinary spirits, and those of the colon and gallbladder, must endure a longer stay, because their gross elements cling so tightly. 1748, 26 February.


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