Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 8023

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8023. After this these angels communicated with me by means of ideas even less distinct from one another; I could detect hardly any spaces at all between them. To my mind it was like the meaning contained in words spoken by those who concentrate entirely on the meaning without thinking about the words. This kind of communicating was more intelligible to me than the first, and also contained more. It passed into my face as the first kind had, but the very nature of the method of communication made the inflow more continuous. However it did not begin, as the first had done, at the lips, but at the eyes. They said that this too was a way in which they communicate with the people on their planet, those there who are endowed with deeper insight and discernment than the rest.


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