Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 888

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888. As for that inward memory, and how spiritual knowledge is instilled into spirits, this cannot be understood except from things that take place in the life of the body, as that a person from early childhood learns to speak, learns to think, and this little by little, and does not know at all how these abilities, still less the faculties of understanding, thinking, judging, forming conclusions, are instilled into us. Likewise, an adult person in learning languages; or, as I have noticed in my own case, that I have been instructed in this same way in the duties of my office, so that they became fixed in my mind by experience alone, without any memory of particular [methods]. (The latter instance is mentioned only so that it can be understood what the nature of that memory is, not so as to insert something about myself.) 1748, 20 February.


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