Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3405

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3405. He obviously raised up persons by means of his own fantasies, for whatever was in the mental image concerning the persons, he collected, and fixed his look upon them, thereby coming into the mental images of the spirits, penetrating them. So the persons or spirits could not even resist him, but he aroused their mental images and then entered into them, and attracted them to himself, as it appeared, and thus collected them, as said before. I have also heard some persons who complained, and seemed not to be in their place as before, but in a place between him and myself. In fact he even raised up, as it seemed to me, the whole of Gehenna, which I heard nearby under my left ear, so that Gehenna was near my left ear, and I was hearing their grating gyres. So by his fantasies he corrupted the auras so that they were no longer heard in their place. Therefore, if such spirits should begin to rule, the location of the grand human being would be corrupted with respect to the world of spirits. When they were acting on my body, their action was on the middle of my left arm, or its elbow-which was shown.


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