Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 2483

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2483. A certain woman was returned to the state that had been hers while in the world where she had attempted something criminal. At this point the details of her thoughts and her conversation with another woman came out as if in broad daylight. Because on another occasion a certain woman belonging to the horde of sirens persistently denied that she had been such during her lifetime she too was returned to the state in which the physical memory is active. At this point her adulterous and disgraceful deeds, which scarcely anyone had known about during her lifetime, were disclosed and recounted one after another, virtually hundreds of them - the place where she had been, those with whom she had committed adultery, and what disgraceful deeds she had attempted. All of these things were in this way disclosed as if recreated in the light of day, and in this way she was proved guilty. Such things are summoned up from the memory when anybody seeks to acquit himself of having been such. Indeed they are summoned as if recreated, with the particular incidents involved.


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