Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3387

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3387. Later they descended into the place from which they had gone up, and they spoke among themselves, but what they were saying did not reach me except the fact that in this case they could not speak with me. But still I noticed coming from those in my brain something of confusion or anxiety, which was their aura because they are in them, and thus a certain aura of persuasion against the truths of faith that thus stirred my brain with some confusion. For I was inspired to tell them that if they wished to speak of things of this nature, which lie in the greatest obscurity, then they could fill the largest Library, which I was given to portray to them, with volumes, and yet the sum of them all would still be what they call higher knowledge of faith, being what was just said here above [3386]. 1748, 27 Sept.


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