3034. Certain spirits who had not been able to understand, because [heaven] was closed [to them], were saying that they could not grasp these things, and that this was really so. It was given me to reply to them that for the same reason neither do they understand that a single action thought to be simple results from so many muscles, and thus from countless motor tissues, and still less that for a single action thought to be simple, a whole system of finer parts concurs according to their proximity and relationship [to the action], in a most amazing way-since they do not know this, and if they do not believe this which is so obvious and familiar, how can they believe that such an inflowing exists? 1748, 2 Sept.
3034 1/2. But these spirits also were given to understand, and what surprized me at the time was that it was as though my breathing had been taken away from me, that is, that I let out my breath and was breathing inwardly. From this I somewhat understand that those spirits were then able to perceive without disturbance from me, for my outer breathing had been taken away and an inner breathing given, because the emission of air disturbs. See what is said about these [actions] in the lung, what drawing in and letting out are, if dealt with there.* 1748, 2 Sept. * See The Animate Kingdom 330-2.
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