Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1427

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1427. Neither do they like to inform me about anything they know, for they try to change it into something else. And so I asked them whether they teach their own inhabitants, but got the reply likewise through inward sensation, that they do not want to teach them, but still they do quiz them. This is done, I think, so as to nourish and increase their appetite to know. For if they are given all the answers, that appetite passes away, so their spirits are kept in that state of not wanting to educate them. Yet the inhabitants are tested by them in various ways. Another reason is, so that they may not know truths in all matters, for if they knew those truths, they would not have the opposites, and then thinking would also perish, which is developed and energized and enlivened by opposites.


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