173. * a similar waving of spirits also reached my senses on several occasions; thus a waving of this kind is common among spirits. But this waving felt by me was undulatory, and it was also given me to consider what it involves, namely, that it is a common life, or a life of many, so harmonizing and conspiring toward a single thought, etc. etc., that it came more gently to the higher classes, and the mysteries within these symbolic acts were more fully extracted, and they grasped what the "odor of rest" [verse 25] is more fully, etc. etc.* [Waving; Breathing] [See the rest of WE 5027, concluding the explanation of this verse.] [See WE 5028-29, explaining Exod. 29:27.] 5030. Further in regard to the "waving," which I said was felt as a quite pleasant undulation in the Brain [173], I could clearly, * In the original this paragraph was emphasized by the word "Obs." written in the margin.