Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2726

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2726. Today certain ones even wanted to enter into the innermost mysteries of faith, to whom I was allowed to show that this is the wrong way, and something should be believed because it is true, and if the reason does not penetrate it, or no reason is discovered, it should still be believed, and if one is discovered it should still be believed. And I was allowed to portray to them the little seed of a tree by a symbolic mental image, saying that if they were told that that little seed produces an entire blossoming tree, which was also portrayed to them live, with branches, leaves, fruits-indeed, that such a little seed can produce even an entire field full of trees, thus if they were told that such a little seed would


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