Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1617

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1617. From these facts I am now prompted to conclude that the inward heaven constitutes an inward person and controls everything organic in the body, from its beginnings in the brain, throughout their entire extension-which extension is the body. It controls them, I say, from within, so that the inward heaven constitutes a person as a consequence of its inward qualities, which are causes. Heaven's rational thought animates the organism, as rational thought usually does, that is, the inward organic substances.


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