Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2177

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2177. Societies are dispersed by various methods and brought back into order

As told earlier, those who portray the east wind dispersed groups so those in the group were forcibly parted from one another [2121-7, 2129-32]. Thus there are also numberless other methods of breaking up societies that are wrongly bunched together, when they are kept for a long time in the same state. I saw today, when such societies were being discussed, that none were thinking and speaking from themself, but from others, and those others from still others, so that none were inspired on their own-consequently, that the whole heaven was, in a way, present within each mental image, causing the development of mental images containing countless elements. Because these things transcended the understanding of the spirits, they did not even want to believe it, so it was shown to them, that is, [the speech passing] from one to another, after that from a society far away from me, very many of whom spoke at the same time, as they clearly heard and saw. This convinced them that the inflow was not only from societies far off into the mental imagery the one or those around me were expressing, but, since those afar were speaking many at the same time, that it even came from a different source that they were able to speak together, as they indeed admitted. For they saw also by means of a spiritual mental image that it came from heaven.


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