Divine Love and Wisdom (Harleys) n. 74

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74. From these statements it can be established that time makes one with thought from affection; for from that is the quality of man's state. Distances in progressions through spaces in the spiritual world make one with progressions of times as can be shown from many things. For actually ways there are shortened or conversely lengthened, in accordance with desires which are of thought from affection. From this also "spaces of time" are spoken of. But in such cases where thought does not conjoin itself with a man's proprial affection, as in sleep, time is not apparent.


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