Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3298

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3298. Their punishment consisted in wrapping him in a woolen cloth from feet to head, then rolling him up by their method. And after he was rolled up in this way, they held the knot that tied him up by hand, twisting it, so that he was bound up and twisted more tightly than I had ever seen on any other occasion, and so rolling him around between their hands and maiming and tearing him apart by a cruel method of crushing, indescribable. And that wrapping up was repeated several times: he was let out, wrapped up, and crushed. They also tried to add a fantasy [to the punishment], but I perceived that the force of the fantasy was taken away by the Lord, lest they achieve that sensation they were trying to inflict on him. And when he had fallen from their hands, there was present toward the left, somewhat deeper down, another troop of his spirits, who seemed to me to be treating him in like manner-if there was any


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