Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 378

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378. THAT AFTER SOULS HAVE BEEN CREATED ANEW, THE PHANTASIES WHICH ARE OF THE NATURAL MAN ARE TURNED INTO HUMAN IMAGES Because everything evil is turned by God Messiah into good, so likewise is it with phantasies; namely, the phantasies of filthy and disgusting little animals - which are the ideas of the phantasies - are afterwards turned into human images of diverse beauty; for every idea or least image of man entirely resembles the man in effigy, that is, there is the effigy of the man in whatever idea he has. 1747, Dec. 22.


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