Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2479

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2479. If I were to state that one tiniest fiber, which is extremely fine and not even visible to the eyes, as it were knows the condition of the whole body, it may appear incredible to anyone, but still it is true. Otherwise the very least elements could not work together toward the preservation of the general state. 1748, 1 July. (For myself for the sake of understanding: otherwise it would not be possible, from the tiniest little organ of life, which is in the seed, for a body to be propagated so accurately in the ovum, from the ovum in the womb, and so on, so it follows that there is within the very tiniest parts in the human body something that contains in beginning stages such a wonderful series of things to follow.) These words were written in front of spirits and angels, and they are not saying a thing. 1748, 1 July.


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