Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1922

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1922. So it is with everything. If anything at all is expressed by a bodily mental image, such as any feeling, be it hatred, or be it love, then the angels in their mental imagery grasp limitless complexities, which cannot possibly be described. This is both because so many elements concur at the same moment-and there, harmonious and pleasant ones-and because they are remote from bodily ideas, and in the very inward heaven, from earthly ideas; also, because they are truths and goods that cannot be grasped by bodily ideas. 1748, 10 May.


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