Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 4800

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4800. Very few people are able to believe that communities of spirits and angels exist with which every individual part of the human being has a correspondence, and also that the more communities there are, and the more members within any community, the better and stronger is the correspondence For a multitude having one mind possesses real strength. To enable me to know that this is so, I was shown how they act on and enter into the face, how they do so into the muscles of the forehead, into those of the cheeks, and also into those of the chin and the throat. Those belonging to the province of the face were allowed to enter my face, where in response to their entry variations were produced in every individual part. Some of them also spoke to me. But they did not know that they were assigned to the province of the face, for this province to which they have been assigned is hidden from spirits, but not from angels.


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