Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 375

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375. Under my feet, the trembling from their savage and violent commotion lasted long enough for me to fully sense their fierceness. It should be noted especially that spirits' fantasies are of a kind that actually bring on sensation, altogether like physical sensation, when they direct them [at someone]; but God the Messiah erases them. No one will be able to believe this, unless he has experienced it. In fact, spirits could bring on in human bodies dreadful pains, and similar unbelievable effects, if God the Messiah were not constantly holding them off.


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