Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2455

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2455. Inward things, that is, things of the earthly mind, are not in agreement with outward and bodily things

There was a spirit speaking with me to whom I was inspired to say that as to the body, I can be or seem to be as he is, but as to inward parts of me not so. This made him wonder how outward things may be without inward ones, because he thought that inward things did not exist. For those who are corporeal do not even go so far as to think that besides bodily and the accompanying sensual things, there are inward ones. To convince him I was prompted to say that he knows people in the world are different in body or outwardly than they are in thought.


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