Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2334

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2334. Another wonder is that spirits, depending on their quality, appear at a certain quarter, overhead, directly, in front, in back, to the side, or in a line horizontal to the face, or at every quarter with respect to a given bodily organ, either lower near the neck, chest, stomach, side, loins, feet, or lower, and even deep down-and there is never any mistake. So the quarter is near, or a bit farther away, rather high or rather deep down, as was told earlier about the swamp, Gehenna [935, 1379-86], that it appears constantly in the same quarter. No matter which way one turns oneself, the spirits remain fixed as long as they are of that character. This depends on their quality, thus on their location in the Grand Body, according to the Lord's arrangement. This was demonstrated to spirits by an experiment, namely, that wherever I turned myself, they still appeared so situated with respect to my body.


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