Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3402

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3402. He did not want to speak, but when I thought, and imagined I was speaking with him, then he was having such fantasies that he was not at all thinking about the things I was thinking, as I was told-in fact contrary to my opinion, I noticed. But while I was thinking and speaking, he aroused all the people, or spirits, I had known. For they were not in the mental image of my thought, but only in the mental image of those who were attached not closely but remotely to my mental images. In short, he raised up persons or spirits who were far away or far removed from my ideas, for a person's every mental image has with it not only places, but also persons, as if the persons were attached to them. On this occasion, therefore, when I was thinking, he was aware of nothing from my mental image, but the image of his fantasy was far away and in fact in the persons, as I have told, whom he was thus arousing-which is remarkable,


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