Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1715

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1715. The effect of Fantasy

It cannot but seem amazing that what are merely bodily characteristics also exist in the spiritual world-namely, that they appear to themselves to be bodies, even dressed in clothes, that they feel pain and consequently possess the sense of touch, besides others that are merely bodily and would seem never to be able to occur in spiritual beings, or spirits. That they do exist, however, is so true that the whole of heaven affirms it.


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