“Listen carefully, then. It is a widespread misunderstanding that Spirit is a thing that is more ‘airy’ than vapor. On the contrary. Spirit is more solid than ice.”

“That never occurred to me.”

“And now I’ll tell you a story. Once upon a time there was a man who didn’t believe in angels. One day, while he was out working in the woods, he was visited by an angel.”

“And?”

“They walk together for a while. Then the man turned to the angel and said, ‘Alright, now I have to admit that angels exist. But you don’t exist in reality, like us.’ ‘What do you mean by that?’ Asked the angel. So the man answered, ‘When we came to that big rock, I had to go around it, but I noticed that you just glided through it. And when we came to that huge log that lay across the path, I had to climb over it while you walked straight through it.’ The angel was very surprised, and said, ‘Didn’t you also notice that we took a path that led through a marsh? We both walked right through the mist. That was because we were more solid than the mist.'”

Above passage by Jostein Gaader, mixed media piece by Maggie Neal

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