Spiritual Experiences-Word Exp. n. 345

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345. 7024. and many other phenomena work cannot so easily be described, because they are wonders. For it is as if a society makes up one person, and thus the whole society is acting and speaking as one person, so that hardly anyone, unless instructed by God the Messiah, can tell that they are many. This is the heavenly form, or the form of heavenly beings, imaging God the Messiah's Kingdom. But this kind of harmony among many is not possible except among the angels or spirits of God the Messiah. Although much more could be told here, this is enough to illustrate the fact that by the spirit of Moses is meant a multitude, which is thus divisible into many. But a different spirit was around Joshua, as we read earlier,* and therefore it was he who would bring those who had formerly been little children into the land of Canaan. [Form; Kingdom; Society; One (Unity)] * This may refer to Num. 27:18; see Acton, The Word Explained 7024, footnote 3.


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