Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 490

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490. Those hymns which the two childlike choirs composed, could not be disturbed by fantasies. There was one boastful spirit trying to disturb them, but the fantasies were as nothing. From this I was able to infer what influence fantasies have upon spiritual and heavenly, or angelic elements: they are too gross to be able to bring about any change. It would be as though what is gross tried to enter into what is refined, or the final outcome into the beginnings, or the body into the soul. This, as human philosophy well enough knows, is a contradiction. Similarly, bodily and earthly elements cannot enter into truly spiritual and heavenly ones. 1748, the 18th day of January.


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