Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1582

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1582. Furthermore, for a spirit to pass into the body of someone else, and live bodily, is as absurd as it is impossible. For thus the form of one person is changed into that of another, and the inward substances of the person would be entirely emptied out, and the substances of the other applied to the fibers and vessels, and the other would take on the whole character that the person had acquired in the body responding to his or her own proper form.


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