Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 700

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700. When one society after the other had declared with a loud voice, as if in song, that the Wolf had stolen them away but that the Lord had snatched them back and restored them to Himself, this saying was passed along farther away from me, from one society to the other, or to one choir after another. Also, at some distance, it was uttered by those of one choir rather doubtingly, with falling voices. This choir, however, being brought back to the proper state, was taken in by the twelfth society; they said that this was the character of the twelfth. (There had actually been eleven, but still a twelfth was also admitted.) Afterwards about eight more societies came, declaring the same thing, whom I thought to be of the other sex, or of a different kind.


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