Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 6926

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6926. Spirits belonging to that planet move in companies and brigades, and when gathered all together they form a kind of ball. They are linked to one another in this way by the Lord in order that they may act as a unit, and in order that the knowledge which each one possesses may be shared with them all, and that all may share theirs with each. The fact that those spirits wander throughout the universe in search of knowledge about real things has also been proved to me by the following experience I once had when they appeared extremely far away from me. They talked to me from there, saying that they had now been gathered all together and were moving outside the sphere of our solar system into the star-laden sky where they knew there existed the kind of people who have no interest in earthly and bodily matters, only in things that do not have any connection with these, with whom they wished to be. I was told that they themselves do not know where they may be going but that under Divine guidance they are taken to those places where they can be informed about things such as they do not yet know and which fit in with the knowledge they already possess. I was also told that they do not know how they come to meet up with the companions to whom they are linked and that this too happens under Divine guidance.


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