Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3302

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3302. Someone was then shown being carried. Her face was bright, which I could not see for the brightness. She was carried from in front to the left, toward the back, and it was suggested, then revealed, that it was his mother, for he was thinking it was his mother, but the thought fell into [the midst of] the evildoers who were being punished, as said. For he had wanted to call his mother to his aid, perhaps because she was worshipped by them as a goddess. Then he also was shown to me such as he had been in his life-his his face was brown, here and there clay-colored, and human yellow, but brownish black, quite ugly-sitting close to the ground on some stool in a corner. Whether it is a house, or outside a house, I do not know. His head is trembling, like an old man's, which is the most general form of the motion of those who speak by tiny movements of the lips [3278]; for this is a consequence.


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