Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3416

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3416. I was shown how he wrapped up all those whom he had thus collected by fantasies in a large net, for he exhibited by fantasies a large net so that they would be wrapped up, and would grieve. But they were let out, in a mass. I saw only one wrapped up, I do not know who, and when I asked, they exhibited various persons, for it was their custom thus to substitute now this person, now that one. When there was no one in the net, that wicked spirit complained. And then one who was enclosed in the net, wandered in the net into various quarters below my feet by a variety of bendings. It was imparted to me that it was that spirit who was bringing on the fantasies. But about the varied wandering out in the farthest part of the net in which he had been enclosed, it would be too much to write, for the bendings were many. 1748, 30 Sept.


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