Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2203

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2203. When spirits show themselves, they generally vary their facial expressions, yet retaining their own face

It has already been demonstrated to me clearly that when spirits presented themselves whose faces I was able to see as clearly as a person on earth sees the face of another person-which happened quite often-they sometimes varied their facial expressions by changes from one side to the other. But still they retained the same face in general, always radiating the same dominant affection, with its variations. So there was, so to speak, the face of that specific affection as a whole, together with is variations.


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