Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 493

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493. Moreover, there are also outward angels doing the same thing, whose action reached my perception - pictorial performers as well as vocal ones, and those who performed in both ways at the same time. But the varieties are such as cannot yet be well described. For these varieties are entirely comparable not only to the lives of individuals, but also to the lives of all our inner parts; because no type [of spirit] exists that does not refer to some member, or to some aspect of an inner part, of the human body, for the reason spoken of earlier [486, 488]. Therefore they are allotted provinces, and functions, in the Body of our Savior.* * In the original this sentence is emphasized by the symbol "NB." written twice in the margin.


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