Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 9580

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9580. But conveying a person's spirit outside his own globe through variations of the state of his interiors and causing the variations to progress one after another till a state is reached that is compatible with or similar to the states of those to whom he is conveyed lies within the power of the Lord alone. For constant direction is necessary and foresight from first to last, there and back, especially when such a journey is made by the spirit of a person who still lives as to the body within the natural order and therefore within space.


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