Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 636

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636. Who spirits are, and what they are like, can also be recognized from the quarter [they are in]

When spirits and angels have acted, whether from afar or nearby, I was able to know where they were, or in what quarter in relation to my face, howsoever my face was turned; for the directions are determined by the face. Those who are at the right side, obliquely toward the front, are good; those obliquely toward the left are evil. Far from there toward the left, lower down, is Gehenna; toward the front a little more to the right, is a swamp; beneath the feet is the earth of the lower ones, towards the left is hell. Above the head are those who boast, and who raise themselves up in fantasy, the higher the haughtier, where they are likewise arranged according to the quarters.


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