Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3080

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3080. From this come their chills, from this their offensive smells, and the rest, according to the diversities of their contrariness. This shows clearly from the fact that if heaven but looks at a deceitful spirit, he is turned into a ball of snakes, and so it goes with others. But those who have their own faith, and in that faith truth or light that harmonizes with the aura, these look beautiful with a varying beauty. In the lowest realm, too, there exists a variety of objects that appear beautiful. Besides these, there are also lights that produce variations. These can be illustrated on the worldly level for example by the sun's light, which causes things to appear in various ways depending on the objects, those that receive the rays in a jumbled manner looking of a black, dirty, dark color, while others, like a rainbow, as also objects of the plant world, look beautiful, according to the arrangement of the finest parts receiving the light of the sun. 1748, 6 Sept.


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