Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 278

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278. THE ORDER OF THE HABITATIONS It was also granted me to think concerning the order or situation of the habitations of the interior heaven; and it occurred to me that the order was fittingly arranged, so that they might constitute a form in which the one would regard and include the other. I could not understand this, however, for I also heard those speaking from a higher place who, I supposed, were among the lower spirits, so that their situation is not according to height alone, but also according to a kind of imperceptible order.* The order of the glands of the brain seems able to afford some light on these habitations, if their order were explored; for in an individual man there are such things as correspond to those which are in the universe, even as to situation and order. 1747, Nov. 29. * The MS. has orbem (globe, circuit), but this seems to be a slip for ordinem (order).


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