Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2002

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2002. It is quite obvious that no particular can exist apart from something general, and that the particular is governed by the general, or each most individual detail by its own universal, which lays boundaries not only for the thought, but for the least elements of the thought. It is thus a general field that moves and persuades anyone. Nor could anyone speak, and produce their feelings, if it were not for a universal thought-field governing and setting bounds on each and every particular. In this way, the individual words and ideas flow fittingly, as if of their own accord, as they are produced by that field in such a way that the person is unaware that they come from it. If there were not such a governing field, the person could not think and speak at all and with clarity in accordance with the character of the field.


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