Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3340

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3340. the animal never. It knows its home, even though going by a way it had never before seen or trod. So do dogs, who run back home by different routes, through many places never seen before, horses likewise. Other animals do the same, such as bees to their hives, thus all animals. They even have a joyful aura only by coming into the locality, even if they had never been in that place, just from its nearness [to their home]. All animals whatever have an aura of knowing what food they may eat, which never fails them, from infancy, nor are they taught-every animal has such an aura, but not man. They shun at once whatever does not agree, seeking, finding, searching for what agrees. Animals have an aura of seasons, flying far away at the right time, geese, for instance, also swallows. Then all animals have an aura, like birds, of building their homes or nests, never having been taught. They have an aura of educating their chicks, such as doves, and others in other ways. So


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