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 as the fixed source and centre of life, power and thought to the spiritual universe, and by different senses, opening out into the different degrees of being, accommodated to the highest and lowest forms and capacities of his entire creation.

What a magnificent conception of the nature and bearings of the Holy Scripture!

Between the vocal speech of spirits and their written communications, there is an intermediate or pictorial mode of conveying thought, really the first step toward writing. By a spiritual process, entirely impossible in our physical sphere, the ideas or visual images in the mind's eye, are thrown outward or made objective in the spiritual atmospheres, assuming a photographic or rather a stereoscopic distinctness and beauty.

In this manner every form latent upon the canvas of the interior memory, may be re-awakened to life, and brought out again in apparent externeity. Thus every action, event, word and thought of our lives can be reproduced and presented visibly before us. Spirits by this objective method can also illustrate and beautify their thoughts, so as vastly to enhance the delight and instructiveness of their conversations.

Swedenborg says on this subject: