Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 5181

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5181. From the spirallings also one can gain some idea about which particular province in the Grand Man, and correspondingly in the body, spirits and angels belong to. The spirallings of those who belong to the province of the Lymphatic System are thin and quick in action, like water flowing smoothly, so that scarcely any spiralling movement can be detected. Those who belong to the lymphatic system are eventually brought into places which, they have said, are the counterpart to the Mesentery. I have been told that here there are labyrinths so to speak, from which, like chyle in the body, they are then borne away to various places in the Grand Man to serve some useful purpose there.


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