Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 303

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303. THAT THOSE WHO ARE INMOST ARE AS IT WERE BASES, AND MULTIPLIED CENTERS - LIKE THE STARS IN THE HEAVENS - AND TO THEM OTHER THINGS RELATE, AS TO THEIR CENTERS That the kingdom of God Messiah is most perfect order and perfection itself, and hence form, can be evident to anyone. Thus because it is most perfect form, it must also have its own centers or its own bases, spiritually understood. Those who are inmost and especially in the mercy of God Messiah are such centers, which are likened to the stars of the heavens [Dan. xii 3] in which there is a representation of the Kingdom of God Messiah, as there is in each and all things in nature; but I cannot know, still less describe, their order, because it is beyond the human understanding, which is profoundly ignorant of heavenly forms. 1747, Dec. 5, o.s.


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