Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3186

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3186. About those deceitful ones who do not care for inward things

About those who do not care for inward things, discussed earlier, nos. 1177 to 1189, for reasons discussed there: some of those who were more deceitful craftily sneaked into the company of angelic spirits, so that before the angelic spirits knew it, they had slipped into their company. This was noticed due to an inanimate, snowy something that was seen round them. So a signal was given to the angelic spirits by means of their mental images, and those who caught it, attempting to withdraw themselves, were then freed from thence, and those who had sneaked in were cast down, and in fact, by a way across the provinces of the body's internal organs-which ones I do not know, but downwards, toward the urinous parts that are below man, between both feet-the deeper, the more urinous, for they love such things. 1748, 17 Sept.


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