Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3406

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3406. I was sleeping off and on, and I awoke three or four times, and when I awoke, he was present in his place, and resumed [his action], for he had no power with sleepers. There were also some spirits with me who were sleeping, nor was he able to raise them but when they awakened. In sleep I dreamt that dogs had things that were mine, which I pursued because they were carrying off my things. But suddenly they were running along some steep path and were hiding themselves, and the path looked steeper still farther down. But the dogs hid themselves under a table, so I did not see them. When I awoke I thought about the dogs, and about the cliff before me, then an extreme acrophobia (hissna*) came over me, and this two or three times when I was thinking of the cliff, which fear (hissna) was streaming in from him, who fears that so much. I was told that he never dared to think of angels, or of heaven, and that he is just now undergoing that horror (hissna). So he could not possibly draw angels and angelic spirits by fantasy, for thus he would utterly perish. * Swedish for "acrophobia" or "fear of heights."


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