Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 293

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293. THAT ANGELS WERE TRANSFERRED FROM THE INTERIOR HEAVEN INTO THE MORE INTERIOR HEAVEN WHERE THERE IS PEACE AND JOY SUCH AS NO ONE CAN EXPRESS Today, from morning to noon, I have been amongst, and conversed with, those who had been in the interior heaven, who by the mercy of God Messiah were transferred into the more interior heaven; conversation could be carried on with them, but through a mediating angel who told me that he then became, as it were, the medium in order that the conversation might be communicated from me to them. They said that there was a joy and peace of which man in mortal life could never perceive even in the least measure, and this with eternal variety. In order that I might perceive this happiness in some measure, an angel came to me; other happy ones surrounded him, and approached me. Then from their approach alone joy and happiness so penetrated my inmosts - the inmost marrow, as they say - that I could not bear it, for thus I was as it were, dissolved from inmost joy. 1747, Dec. 4.


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