Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 420

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420. There are some also who worship Christ as an infant, and who carry Him

There are also those who from innocence, and from harmless simplicity also, worship God the Messiah as an infant. Because of their simplicity and innocence, they, too, are let in (although they do not remain there for long), because they are innocents and simplicities, who have peace in which is innocence. There the heavenly [aura] is constantly present, which I could recognize because of the joy carried over from them. I am prohibited from writing any more, for the reason that they worship human beings, and exhibit images of them in every temple, in every house, on the highways and at cross-roads, which is entirely forbidden; but with those who do this out of simplicity, and thus out of innocence, this is overlooked. 1747, 30 December.


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