Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 237

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237. THAT IN ONE HUMAN THOUGHT THERE ARE MYRIADS OF AFFECTIONS AND SIMILAR THINGS. CONCERNING THE CHERUBIM I was in tacit speech with the celestial today, and it was given me to comprehend clearly by the understanding that myriads of myriads of things inflowing from the heavens concur in one human thought. Into thoughts which are vain and earthly, concur the inflowing things of spirits, or of those who are in "the third heaven"; but into those thoughts which are spiritual and celestial concur the inflowing things of the angels; thus God Messiah by means of spirits and angels disposes human thoughts with indefinite variety. Wherefore spiritual and celestial thoughts, which comprehend within themselves the verities of faith, affect the whole angelic heaven when God Messiah so disposes.


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