Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1163

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1163. But yet the spiritual are greatly delighted with milk, especially with fresh milk, for when I partook of some, it was with such enjoyment that I can scarcely describe it. Wherefore milk belongs to spiritual things, but butter to celestial. Spirits do not enjoy these things as foods but on account of their representations, that is, on account of the things they signify. 1748, Mar. 3, 4. This arises from the agreement of the spheres which are also represented by odors.* * The last sentence appears to have been added later, perhaps in September when Swedenborg was making the Index.


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