Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2360

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2360. vegetable and animal kingdom, and in the atmospheres, such as the fact that the fluids in the human body do not seek altitudes and locations by their weight, but that upwards is where the circumference is, as in the earthly globe and orbitally driven bodies. If things are not believed when experience verifies them-such as that plants grow from a seed, that flowers become colored, thus beautiful, that there are odors, that there is taste, sight and hearing, thought, and countless other things-then nothing is believed. Now that this has become familiar to them, many believe. 1748, 18 June.


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