Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 5853

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5853. The spirits who come to a person enter into his whole memory and all the knowledge he has in his memory. By doing this they take on his whole personality, so completely that they are unaware it is not their own. This is the great advantage spirits have over man. As a result, everything a person thinks they think, and everything he wills they will; and conversely, everything the spirits think the person thinks, and everything they will he wills. For by being linked together the two act as one. Yet the spirits on one hand and men on the other suppose that whatever they think or will is something inside themselves and has its origin there. That is what spirits suppose, and it is what men suppose; but they are mistaken.


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