Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3376

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3376. From this I was also given to realize that after the flood mankind was turned upside down, so to speak, namely that there remained dreadful passions for, or pleasures in, tormenting the Lord and everything pertaining to faith, while here and there that hereditary character in the descendents was lessened, and then there succeeded mental images based on knowledge, which were separate [from desires], so that mankind became entirely different. For now the knowledge and understanding of religion could be stored away in a person, even one who remained immersed in dreadful passions and behaved insanely. So the thinking was separated from the will, which was more or less left to its desires so that there was no will, but the will for good and truth is the Lord's, and faith based on knowledge and understanding


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