Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1914

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1914. When those in heaven see something in another's ideas that is unpleasant, offensive, or criminal, then at once it is visualized, either by spiritual portrayal, or by a spiritual mental image. When it is seen by a steady spiritual portrayal, then in the spiritual world, some species of beast, wild animal, or insect is created, having its own shape, color, and size entirely typifying the figurative mental image that is then coming down into the world of spirits. The figurative mental image of the angels cannot be grasped by anyone in the body, but in the world of spirits it emerges visually, as it has before me any number of times while I was in vision. I was told that in these visions there is not anything whatever that is not shaped by an angelic mental image.


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