Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 5987

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5987. The greater the number of spirits focusing on a single subordinate, the stronger the subordinate's power of thought and speech; and that power increases as the number of spirits in accord with one another concentrating on him grows. This too has been demonstrated to me, by the removal of some of the spirits flowing in, for then the subordinate's power of thought and speech was diminished.


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