Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 3127

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3127. THE VARIATIONS OF AFFECTIONS, WITHOUT IDEAS OF THOUGHTS. I have experienced without reflection, although [the same thing occurred] several times before, that affections can act and be varied, as to effect, without [apart from] ideas of thought. So that there are indefinite states of affections with their varieties and successions. These are the principles of thoughts which nevertheless man cannot perceive without ideas of thought: wherefore [he cannot perceive] that celestial states, from which spirituals [arise] are of such a nature. - 1748, September 12.


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