169. I was brought into a state where my physical senses were rendered insensible, that is, into the state almost of people who are dying, but with my interior life, together with my ability to think, remaining intact. This was done so that I might perceive and retain in the memory what happens to people who have died and are being awakened, with enough breathing to support life, and after that with a soundless breathing. ¹

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301. It is furthermore clearly apparent from angelic ideas, which are independent of space, that nothing in the created universe has life except the human God alone, or the Lord, that nothing moves except as the result of life from Him, and that nothing has existence except through the sun from Him - consequently that it is a truth that in God we live, move, and have our being. ¹

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