Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1750

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1750. Spirits of this kind, if allowed, even try to take complete possession of a person, to the point that if they were able, they would try to cast out the person's life, and then enter so as to live in the other's body, entertaining fantasies like those of certain spirits at the time the Lord was in the world. I was shown that this is what they want to do also, and I said to one that this is impossible, demonstrating it plainly by the fact that each person is an instrument, whose inward parts are organic forms that could never be occupied by the organic forms of someone else, nor be changed into someone else's. Perhaps they were thinking that their inward parts were nothing but life, like a flame; but if so, they are immensely mistaken.


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