Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3116

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3116. Spirits in the other life are not only caught sight of in certain places, but their bodies in a certain position

Some appear standing in their place, who nevertheless told me they were walking, and some with the body upright. Some appeared as if within the body, with the head downward and upper back above, some sitting on the ground, some also sitting but not visibly, some differently, due to different causes; some as if lying stretched out, and so on. 1748, 10 Sept.

One spirit is led by another, and so forth

From much experience I know that one spirit is led by another, and the other by another, so there is no one not led by another, which they also admitted when it was shown them, so that* * This sentence was left incomplete.


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