Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3153

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3153. Its opposite is overhead, where nothing else comes forth but that which almost crazes man-like erotic love, when it drives young men into wantonness-and which results in the kind of things that appeared in the foolhardy one spoken of previously [3135-41, 3149-50], who in his adolescence was so far gone that no one was ever more insane-a case of the absolute limit of insanity breaking out in that sort of behavior in ultimate carnal extremes. This is a familiar phenomenon with those who become insane from such practices. 1748, 14 Sept.


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