Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1787

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1787. How the life in the body is continued after death

There were some who had lived a promiscuous life in the body and who, being infected themselves, had also infected others with their own uncleanness and plague. These, I was able to guess, came to me not long after the death of their body, not knowing that they were in the other life, and I noticed that they were trying to live the same way here as they did in their bodies. Their bodily life had been one of entrapping wives and committing adultery without any conscience, thus whenever they were able to allure the wives of others into adultery, they would seek to do so. And now, not knowing that they were in the other life, they were trying to do the same thing.


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