Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1086

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1086. THAT THERE ARE REPRESENTATIONS WHICH CAN NEVER BE DESCRIBED IN WORDS There are also given representations and likewise derivations of representations in regard to all other things or objects which are such that they can never be described, because they cannot be conceived by the natural mind. Indeed, when I thought to describe them in words, as for instance, the things that happened to me last night, my grasp did not then comprehend them, although whilst they were taking place, they were so significative and real that it was allowed to suppose that they would be perceptible and expressible in the same manner as natural things. But as soon as the "animus" is awake and pays attention to them, man is altogether ignorant of what they were like, thus what they were. Such ideas exist especially in sleep and on first awakening, when the objects of the senses and material ideas are removed from intellectual ideas. 1748, Feb. 29.


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