Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2766

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2766. Brute animals live in the order of nature, and after death, their souls cannot possibly live on

I spoke with spirits about the brute animals, and the fact that they live in the order of their nature, differently from the human being, who lives against order. That animals live according to order was proven to spirits with whom I spoke about the matter, simply by the chicks of hens and like animals, in that the young ones know their mother, follow her, let themselves be fed by her, go in under her wings, where they delight in living safely, and if there are many mothers with chicks all in one place, still the chicks are not confused, but know their own mother, the aura of some love joining them with their own mother. These along with numerous other particulars confirm that from their very birth they live in the order of their own nature, which commands them. But it is different


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