Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1362

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1362. THERE ARE SPIRITS AND ALSO ANGELS WHO ANSWER TO EACH AND ALL THE MUSCLES IN MAN It is a wonderful thing which perhaps very few can believe, that there are spirits and angels who answer to each single muscle in man - not only spirits and angels, but societies of spirits and angels. Indeed, the more there are in the society, and the more societies there are of the same kind, answering to each single muscle, the better and the stronger it is, because in a unanimous multitude there is strength. Since they all act [as one], the effort to act re-bounds upon the individual men and indeed upon spirits. That this is so cannot indeed be believed, but it is nevertheless the very truth. Thus the heavens correspond to man, so that man can be called a heaven and a Kingdom of the Lord, for the Kingdom of God is within him [Luke xvii 21].


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