Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1050

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1050. CONCERNING THE SPIRITUAL MODES OF REPRESENTING THINGS Those who represent things to others only by means of words, and by separated ideas joined together, that is, by speech as most men do - can never apprehend how spirits communicate their thoughts among themselves; and the more they adhere to the words and the particular ideas, the less can they apprehend. Nor can they who for various reasons dwell in the proximate sense of the words, or only in the things of the memory of particulars, apprehend it, since only particulars are there concentrated. But those who have more universal ideas, thus ideas abstracted from particulars, can understand somewhat better.


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