Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1831

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1831. Accordingly, human beings cannot possibly remain intact unless, in all their live aspects, they interact as a part with the grand human being. If this universal human being did not exist, that is, a more universal body with its own organs, individual bodies would never remain intact or endure. That body, or human being, constituting the universals that are in themselves organic, has its life from the Lord, and in this way humanity is ruled by the Lord. In no other way can any life, either of man, or spirit, or angel, ever be conceived. What is individual lives from the community, because it is part of it, and every least component lives from its universal realm, because it is a part of the whole.


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