Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2679

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2679. thus not caring who is acknowledged as God. This I have been enabled to learn also by another experience, namely that when eternity was portrayed as a bottomless abyss, then there were some looking toward the bottom who were driven into that extreme fear called (hissna*). Then they said that they do not care for such fantasies, but when it was displayed to them anyway, they were struck with that extreme fear. When I prayed the Lord's prayer another time, I was enabled to see that they were more ardent than others. * Swedish for "vertigo."


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