Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3318

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3318. I was also instructed that heavenly and spiritual angels each induce a different breathing, indeed, the heavenly one kind, with every possible difference, and the spiritual another, with every difference, as was shown to me by means of the breathing itself. Moreover, a spirit of Mercury enumerated many kinds of breathing, some of them communicated to me, both those that flowed into the inward breathing, and those that flowed in outwardly especially toward the left eye. Therefore each society of the grand human being has its own kind of respiration, which all flow in and determine the ordinary respiration of mankind. And because the kinds are innumerable, and the species of each kind innumerable, I cannot yet show what they are like, except as said.


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