Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1162

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1162. That spiritual spirits caused this, because they dislike butter, is clear to me from an instance when a certain heavenly spirit was present, and I was stirred by a desire for butter. So I ate some really good butter, whereupon spiritual spirits aroused the smell of butter from my mouth into my nostrils, so as to confront me with its odor. And so I was taught that the spiritual dislike butter.


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