Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 10316

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10316. When I questioned them whether they wished to see anything on our planet, telling them that it was possible for them to do so through my eyes, they replied first that they could not, and then that they did not wish to, because what they would see would be nothing other than earthly and material objects, from which as far as is possible they detach their thoughts.


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