Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2247

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2247. What reflection is

I spoke with spirits about reflection, saying that because spirits who are leading people on earth have no such reflection as people in the body have by means of the senses, they can therefore see nothing in the world through the person's eyes, as spirits do through mine. For as often as I was allowed to give them reflection, engaging their attention, which I saw plainly by a spiritual mental image, then at once they said they were seeing the things, all down to the very least to which I directed the reflection given to me and shared with them. Almost every time, they would say they saw nothing before the reflection was given them, which happened very often, so that I am able to corroborate from multiple experiences that a spirit sees nothing through the eyes of another person on earth. Souls and spirits were greatly surprised at having come again into the world, so to speak, exactly as if they were there with their own body. To this they are even now attesting.


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