Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3398

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3398. How heaven was portrayed

When I was speaking with spirits on the street, the angels were portrayed as if having their head in heaven, but their feet in the heaven of inward angelic spirits; these, similarly, as if having their head in their heaven, but their feet in the world of lower angelic spirits; these also as if having their head in their world of spirits, but their feet in mankind. But those newly arrived from the earth fallaciously appear to themselves as people on earth. Evil spirits, however-and as is now being imparted, the inward kind of them-[were portrayed] as if they had their head in the tail, and their feet upward. 1748, 28 Sept.


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