Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1760

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1760. It is generally so in the world of spirits that they cannot believe the Lord is able to know all and the least things that are going on in the Universe, both in Heaven and in the World, and on all earths-even down to the very least detail in all and in each. For those spirits, like earthlings, are looking at those matters from below, from their extremely limited earthly mind, to which such thoughts pose nothing but impossibilities. But then I kept telling them, and portrayed to them by mental imagery, that [if it were not so,] then it could be maintained that neither can the soul in the body know, and not knowing, be able to manage all and the tiniest details in its own body, and to heal its smallest parts. This the scholars ascribe to nature, but mistakenly and wrongly, seeing that this all comes from the Lord. Then I added that the human will by itself is able to arrange and so to speak know which muscles and which motor tissues must take part in a single action-of which there are thousands, even tens of thousands, selected from here and there over the whole body. Then I portrayed this to them, asking, Why not the Lord, Who is God of the universe, and the Only life? And they were quite unable to reply; for the impossibilities had departed. 1748, 28 March.


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