Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1339

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1339. IN ORDER THAT ANYTHING MAY BE PERFECT IT MUST ALSO PUT ON A KIND OF BODY I conversed with souls concerning the fruits of faith or the works of charity to the effect that the works of charity have reference to a kind of body whose soul is faith, and that nothing is perfect in the universe unless there is also relatively a kind of body. Further, that there is nothing in the life of man that is not like a man. It is similar in the entire heaven where the heaven of spirits, and likewise every spirit, has reference to the body. And so in other cases. 1748, Mar. 14. Further, that the body regarded in itself relatively to the soul is nothing except something obedient and subservient; and that the body thus obedient and subservient contains the prior things and is, as it were, a soul.


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