Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1740

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1740. Moreover, there are also some who constitute the insides of the skin tunic, who are fairly upright. These imagine that they are the origin of everything that comes from those constituting the outer skin, thus ascribing many things to themselves which are not theirs. In life they had been the kind who take credit for all manner of things, as if they had come from them, which, however, were not theirs-not so much out of self-love and putting themselves before others, but from a certain ambition, and a kind of pleasant feeling [it gave them] for various reasons. I spoke with them, and found them upright, understanding what was said. They only became insane in those respects, that they imagined they had done things actually done by others. 1748, 27 March.


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