Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2891

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2891. I added that there is no hatred, nor revenge, for at the same moment that they stop, nothing evil befalls them, but they are well accepted and can be friends, as they were then told so they would know that evil is resisted by the Lord's servants without hatred and revenge. For there is such a balance that when those who are servants of the Lord seem to themselves to be resisting out of anger, there are the kind of spirits present who work this into them as if it were in them, doing so out of some enjoyment coming from hatred or revenge (thus imagining that this also comes from themselves), so that [the servants of the Lord] do not know otherwise but that the anger comes from themselves, whereas it is from those spirits, who think themselves able to do this from their own power.


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