Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3149

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3149. Fear pertains to shame, also to reverence

From a live mental image, also from live experience, I have been given to know that those who are devoid of all fear of dangers, as was said of the Foolhardy one earlier [3135-41], if he had not had in a like degree the fear of losing his fame and name and of whatever would expose him not only to the world, but also to himself, he would have been a urinous excrement so foul that nothing more filthy could be conceived of. For this reason he had such an indescribable fear, which restrained from wandering beyond the limits such a mind as was entirely without fear of death in dangers. For his fear that he might lose the name of bravery was so great, that it was entirely of the same


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