Spiritual Experiences Minor (Buss) n. 4618

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4618. There are ideas, concerning every man and concerning every thing, taken from all that one has heard and seen about the man, and from all one has thought respecting hi. These occur to a man, simultaneously, when he thinks about a person and when he sees him; but all things are, at the same time, in obscurity. There is, for the most part, evil and good concerning the same person. When the idea of evil is removed, there is good; when the idea of good is removed, there is evil. It [the idea] is determined, also, according to the particular kind of evil or of good; but, still, all things are together, arranged in different ways. Wherefore, when such an idea occurs to the mind in the other life, the person appears present.


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