Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 7809

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7809. Spirits there speak to a person, but the person does not talk back to them, except to utter these words when he receives instruction, I will not do it again. Nor is he allowed to tell any of his own people that the spirit has spoken to him. If he does he is punished severely. While those spirits belonging to Jupiter were present with me they imagined at first that they were with a member of their own planet. But when I talked back to them, and also when I thought that I might wish to publish such experiences, and they were not allowed to chastise or instruct me, they realized that they were with a stranger.


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