Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3403

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3403. and incredible to others that such a thing can be done. Hence we may conclude that there are spirits who can arouse out of the mental imagery of others things the thinker is not at all aware of, as was confirmed to me earlier by those who saw dung when I was paying no attention to it [2843]; and that there are other spirits who arouse from any mental image whatever, the things that are agreeable to them and their nature, as I have observed frequently before. So there are spirits who arouse anything whatever in a person's mental image-some the nearest things, some more remote things, some the most remote, some also the resulting circumstances. This spirit was the kind to raise up only people known to me, emerging from my mental image, and far from me, but not those nearby, that is, about whom I was thinking.


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