Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 282

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282. The worst of the devil's gang cannot exercise even the least power on those who trust in God the Messiah

One was let out of the lowest hell, about whom see the next page [284-87], who trusted in himself and his own power to overturn everything, even to the point where he thought he could displace boulders. So he was permitted to exert all his strength and power against me, but he was not able to inflict upon me even the very least of the evil he had brought to bear - not even upon my thought, except something vaguely. At this he was astonished, and afterwards he sank away. 1747, the 1st day of December.


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