Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2996

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2996. Angels are able to know a person's quality About Mohammed

From the Lord, angels are able to know whatever is in a person from infancy onward, and what the person had thought. This is even now happening through the agency of those who were transferred into heaven-I believe they are Mohammed and Mohammedans, who are bringing in these things into my thought from there, and bearing witness to them, and without my knowing it, guiding my hand to writing this. 1748, 30 Aug. There are countless things that they see in everything that occurs, which could never be grasped by a human idea, likewise in the least words that are being written, by them as well. When they were told that these things they were seeing are still almost nothing compared to those which can be seen within those they had seen, they were raised up into a still more inward place, from where they spoke with me again, saying that the things they had seen before had been so crude that they were hardly anything. 1748, 30 Aug. They were raised up still more to where there were little children, and at first they were surprised that little children know things that no others do, and from there they also spoke, saying that the things they had seen before were almost nothing, and that so countless a number of things are contained in one single idea, that one idea cannot be described in volumes. 1748, 30 Aug. Various things streamed in, and I was led to various things and moved by various things which I am unable to relate. I know that they came from those who had seen causes and how these flowed into the lower world.* 1748, 30 Aug. * The original has "how they flowed into" and then "the lower world" in nominative case. I believe accusative was intended.


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