Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1229

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1229. So they are like furies when they have really regarded such things as all-important. Spirits can immediately judge what they had been like in life from the hair-its color, length, the way it is styled, and other details concerning the hair, as well as from their body-its nakedness, how far it is showing, which parts are especially exposed, and which ones they try to hide. From this the souls can also come to know themselves, for they must first learn what they had been like [cf. 1119]. 1748, 8 March.


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