Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2319

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2319. A multitude of people together in this world in one place, can nevertheless be so separated in the world of spirits that they are very far apart

The fact that they are in one place in the world, or as to bodily life, does not mean that they are together in the other life. One may be to the east, another to the west, and one be controlled by spirits who are toward one quarter, and the other by those in a different quarter. For it is one's quality that determines whether one is here or there, as we may deduce from the location of spirits in the grand body and from distances in the other life, which exist entirely according to a person's quality. So a little child may be lying at its mother's bosom, and while the infant is in heaven, the mother may be in hell, and so on. 1748, 13 June.


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