Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 360

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360. But all must be passive forces to which, as re-agents - which are the communications of many with each one - the active forces must correspond. Hence it also follows that the harmony will become so much the more perfect as the number increases; from this the harmony itself also increases.* * The following un-numbered and unfinished paragraph is crossed out by several transverse lines:

"THAT THE SOULS AND SPIRITS AROUND A MAN KNOW NO OTHERWISE THAN THAT THEY MAKE THE MAN. From very many other experiences [I have learnt] that the spirits suppose that they are the man with whom they are, and these are the things that they have spoken through me as if they were [myself], and..."


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