Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 8953

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8953. The inhabitants and spirits of that planet correlate with something in the human being which lies between spiritual perceiving and natural perceiving, though tending away from the natural and towards the spiritual. This explains why those spirits often seem to themselves to be borne away or caught up into heaven, and afterwards to be sent back, and so to alternate between the two. For whatever belongs to spiritual perceiving is in heaven, while whatever belongs to natural perceiving is under heaven.


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