Spiritual Experiences-Word Exp. n. 12

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12. 1150. In fact, I have even written whole pages, and the spirits themselves were not just dictating the words, but were entirely guiding my hand, and thus writing. As an experiment, they even wrote words that I myself had not thought of, but only their meanings. Besides this, they also dictated words. mIt would be too much to tell how thoughts stream in before they are spoken, instantaneously, and how at times one is unaware what is to be thought, but it follows from its own context, and is then understood from what follows. So also it is too much to tell how all those deeds are summoned up that correspond [to their thoughts], as, for example, from the people while talking together, when their very least evil and good acts, from childhood on, are brought to light. Every single deed appears down to the least details that were thought to be forgotten, and this in a long sequence, so that I almost wanted to withdraw myself from their company. But it was in vain - for I could not restrain myself from appearing as if in judgment before them. To recount all this would be a large undertaking.n mThere is nothing that is not driven by actual energies, even when it comes to the smallest things. Thoughts are nothing but energies. These become visible when the door is opened into heaven, as has clearly shown itself to be the case with me.n [Hand; Write]

[See also WE 1203-13, explaining Gen. 31:19.] 1214. In the deepest sense, this means the whole world since the beginning of days. Those yet to live, therefore, and those who have died, as well as all those who have clung to this idolatrous worship, are to be judged, and that worship abolished, which flourishes and persists in heaven as on earth.


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