Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1858

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1858. As for those who take pleasure in the very inward contents of the Word, their warmth is a still deeper, or very inward one, which I was indeed allowed to some extent to feel; but because my sensation in those regions was dull, it could not be felt so well as it actually is. For I was told that if I should feel it, I would not be able to live in the body, for it occupies the very inward marrows. And because it is of this nature, I felt instead a bit of chill in the outer parts, but inwardly some notion of warmth. Its region is from the loins, or from the middle point between the loins, and then upward toward the chest, and the left arm, to the hand, as well as downward into the left foot.


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