Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3022

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3022. Further, since human beings are the last of order, ideas terminate in their memory, or in the material images of their memory. And because all ideas terminate there, even those of spirits, and they are therefore receptacles of spirits' ideas and there is an unbroken ordered connection leading right to them, spirits cannot think otherwise than that their ideas begin in themselves and from themselves, when yet they are in the human's ideas, where they terminate. This is evident from the fact that spirits appropriate to themselves every least thing of people [they are with], speaking their language as if it were their own, unable to know any better.


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