Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 2822

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2822. which [belonged to] their intertexture. The beauty cannot be described nor depicted: for such are the things of heaven that are represented that they cannot be described nor depicted; and I was told that the angels receive such gifts when they please the Lord. I perceived that such things are let down from the more interior heaven to the angels of the interior heaven, and that such are the representations in heaven which are understood, for there is nothing at all in such a celestial bundle [fascia] but signifies something: thus they perceive at the same time with what is depicted before [their] eyes what is signified thereby: thus innumerable things at one glance of the eye which cannot be declared in words. - 1748, August 14.


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