Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 1982

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1982. Certain souls recently arrived from the world, who have the desire to see the glory of the Lord before they have become such as can be admitted [into heaven], have their exterior senses and lower mental abilities lulled into a kind of gentle sleep, while at the same time their interior senses and abilities are made fully awake. And in this condition they are brought into the glory of heaven. But when their exterior senses and abilities have been woken up again they return to their previous state.


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