Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1137

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1137. As for the inner spirits [1130], they are not evil. From some desire they do try to discover people's thoughts, but not so much their falsehoods and evils, but their good qualities. This they do so as to attract the person to be with them in their society. For they constitute that province which guides the [cerebral] spirits* that they marry to the chyle. So they interpret all things favorably, even if they are not good, with the result that there is friendship. * I. e. the "animate spirits" or "the soul's spirits," being the purest substance of the blood.


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