Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1254

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1254. Furthermore, I also saw plainly that the individual spirits were also the mediums for similar portrayals made by other spirits, so they were never by themselves. Hence they are centers of the working of many. Every spirit was a company, so that as many as there were spirits, so many were the centers of many, each one being such a center. This may seem amazing to anyone, even unbelievable, yet the same principle exists in every member, muscle, and part of the body, and the same exists in nature, and in the atmospheres, and the same in plant life: that there can never be something that is one, except from many. There is nothing that is not in a social and mutual relation, and separately from companionship they can never do anything, still less contribute to any single cause, and thus to a common cause. Consequently, people could have known, if they had been instructed in this kind of knowledge, that what has just been said is not unbelievable, and that the heaven of spirits, and of angels, is so interconnected, that is, by mutual ties, that taken together they make up collective shapes [of society], and these in turn the universal one. 1748, 9 March.


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