Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1100

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1100. Moreover, the heavenly beings, by means of spirits, also smell an aromatic odor, as when a corpse is embalmed, which I, too, was allowed to smell clearly, in fact on two occasions. This happens because the heavenly [angels] are there. At that time not a cadaverous odor is smelled, but an aromatic one, nor do evil demons dare to come near, still less spirits. There was even an odor like that of human dung, and yet it was not an unpleasant one, for the same reason, namely, that the heavenly beings are there.


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