Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 7746

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7746. But although they imagine that what they are talking about to one another is not understood by others, angelic spirits in fact perceive every detail of what they are saying. The reason for this is that it is impossible for them to withhold anything they think from them, as the following experience was to demonstrate to them. I began to think about the fact that spirits belonging to our planet feel no shame when they molest others, and this thought was coming to me from angelic spirits. The Martian spirits then admitted that this was what they were talking about to one another, and were astonished. In addition to this an angelic spirit disclosed many other things they were both talking and thinking about, in spite of the efforts they made to keep their thoughts from him.


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