Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3161

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3161. human thought, which is not only vague, but no thought; then I said that of course, there are variations of generalities, but they are still similar: namely, there are vague ones, and those that are as none at all. Nevertheless they showed me for a quarter if not a half hour that they had a distinct mental image of generalities and at the same time of everything in the generality. For they observed so accurately all the variations and changes of my thinking, together with all and the least things that arose regarding the variations and changes of my thought and feeling, that no other spirits could do so better. From all this, one may clearly conclude that they had a distinct mental image of generalities, and better than others, because they told true things, and at the same time they looked into all and the least things that were necessary to draw a conclusion, and indeed


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