Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1707

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1707. This makes it clear that whatever spirits appear to themselves to be, they derive from fixing their ideas on themselves and from thinking about the words they are speaking. Without this directing [of the thought] and this reflection, both a spirit and a person on earth appear to themselves as nothing. 1748, 26 March.


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