Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 6607

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6607. I have been shown that when thoughts accompanied by affections distribute themselves they circulate in a pattern very much like that assumed by the enfoldings of the grey matter in the human brain. For a long time I watched the ways in which they were flowing round. They were winding round, bending, weaving in, and coming out, as the grey matter referred to above does. But the patterns produced by heaven are even more wonderful, transcending the grasp even of the angels. A pattern like this is assumed by the angelic communities in the heavens, and it is into such a pattern that angels' thoughts flow. And they flow great distances almost instantaneously, because they follow a pattern that is infinitely perfect.


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