Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3392

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3392. Another one from those who had lived in my time, whom I had known in life, abandoned by his companions, was at the back as if dead. But he was alive, as I felt from his animation, as if in a deep sleep. Being afterwards in like manner seized by such spirits so as to be likewise forced, his gyres were at first crude, so that crude gyres were set apart by stops-six, if I am not mistaken-but so crude that I could hardly hope that he could be driven into quicker gyres. There was likewise torment, but not as to the whole body, as in the other's case-mostly, as I was allowed to feel, around the gums, and less as to the body, which was nevertheless being brought into harmony, as I was later given to see. After several hours, and for the most part when I was asleep, he was brought back into such swift gyres that when I awoke, I marveled that within several hours he had been able to be brought into almost smooth gyres, seeming to me almost like angelic ones. I also observed this within myself, so that the other spirits marveled,


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