Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1553

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1553. Therefore, when I disappeared, they were thinking at the time (as they are thinking now) that I had fallen into a pit. When they looked for me in the pit, they let down a pole hanging crosswise on a rope, and they think that on pulling this up, I would be standing on that pole and thus be pulled out. I saw them pulling out the pole, and because no one was standing on it, they said he was not there, searching anxiously to find where I was. At that time they were in their own symbolic displays, as if in sleep, because not living in company with me.


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