Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 312

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312. Moreover, there is also another kind of inner sense which could be called that of the understanding, although it is also unconscious. By this we are led for the most part during the life of the body, when we sense - because of what we have been taught from the Word of God the Messiah - what opposes [the Word] as if from conscience, and thus when we refrain from doing it, even if the loves of self and of the world may urge us to.


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