Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1649

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1649. After this, the angels of that planet came, that is, of Jupiter, and I could recognize from their speaking that they were of a different kind, and were thus from a different planet. Their speaking was not produced by words, but by mental images, which spread over their whole face, so that the face seemed to go along with the mental images-at first, in such a way that this speaking face, as it were, began at the lips and spread to the surrounding parts. Even though I only vaguely realized this, it was afterwards made clear to me. The mental images seemed uninterrupted, and although distinguished into words, yet the words were not very audible. They said that this was how they spoke with their own people on their planet. For there they have a facial language, starting from the lips, as spoken of earlier [529-30].


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