Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 358

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358. The memory of particulars, together with pride on account of it, is burdensome at the first entrance into the other life

Everyone carries along into the other life the nature which they had acquired in the life of the body; so also do people who possess a great memory, and boast of it, and want to show it off. This memory, so inflated, is [hard], like a callous clinging to the outside. It must soften in the course of time, but meanwhile, it causes a pain in the head as if someone were trying to tear off one's scalp. 1747, the 16th day of December.


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