Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2294

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2294. This is also the reason why spirits' states of mind vary, so that they are comparable to the changes of the year, and of the day, morning, noon, evening, night, then again morning, or spring, summer, fall, winter, then again spring, but with countless differences. For the angels the states vary only as the noon, evening, night and morning* in the springtime, and so on, 1748, 11 June. So I have noticed that what was happy and cheerful to certain spirits, for the angels was cheerless and almost unhappy; because all things are relative. * The original has the word ver, "spring."


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