Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3350

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3350. I was shown that the smells of those immersed in outermost things are fields flowing forth from them. For when I was writing about how the soul governs all things of the body, and the will controls the muscles, in order to confirm that the Lord rules the universe [cf. 67, 1534, 1758-60], then evil spirits of the lowest kind would think about nothing else but the lowest things of man-thus how the soul and the will controlled the anus and its excremental scourings. Hence arose an odor of dung, showing that such smells flow forth from them and are indeed their fields, whenever those smells are perceived. 1748, 26 Sept.


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