Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3169

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3169. Those who condemn others within themselves, and behave differently with the mouth

There was someone who in life was able outwardly to get along with others and to be appreciated by them, because he was careful how he spoke about others for the sake of his own fame and name. But still he inwardly condemned everyone, except his own, and those joined to him by personal friendship. So he condemned them to hell so dreadfully that those who heard him speaking out of the state of his proper thinking, into which he had been reduced-(and into which as well as into each state of his life he can easily be reduced, and then thinks the same, and others then hear his thoughts as those of one speaking, because they are mental images)-that those who heard him speaking his thoughts said repeatedly, "faseligit, faseligit!"* * Swedish for "dreadful, dreadful!"


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