Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 5557

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5557. There are also spirits who serve as mouthpieces for others, while they themselves understand scarcely anything of what they utter. They have confessed that this is so, yet they go on acting as those mouthpieces. This is what those people come to be like who during their lifetime simply babbled on without giving any thought to what they were saying and who loved to speak on every subject. I have been told that they exist in groups and that some of them correlate with the membranes that cover the internal organs of the body, others with those layers of skin where little feeling exists. For they are wholly passive forces which do not act of themselves but are moved by others.


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