Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3359

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3359. Such spirits are not allowed to ascend, but occasionally the rock becomes thinner, so to speak, and then they are even heard from down there as they were by me. Depending on the hardness of the intervening rock they can be heard and can operate into the higher realm. For that rock portrays symbolically how distant their persuasive wicked aura is from the auras up above. In this manner they are held back.


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