Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3064

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3064. From a single word of a spirit it is recognized what he is like

This was demonstrated to me, that is, that a spirit said only the word true, then signals of a twofold kind were evident to me, namely from the tone and from the mental image. The tone has differentiations even to a countless number, as is obvious from the tones of human speech in that their variety is beyond number, as is that of facial expressions. This is well known to everyone. The other signal is that of the mental picture of the word true or truth. It showed at once what his general idea of true is like, whether it is general and has little content, whether there is simplicity in general, compassion in general, a calm quality, or an infantile or innocent quality, which is a general sign; then whether it is closed, or open, for example whether anything from heaven is being slipped into the picture, or whether it is drawing something from evils from self; then also, whether the mental image is very rich,


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