Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 909

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909. So that their life might be described, a dark room appeared to me, which I do not remember [seeing before], and leaving it was a person who, during his life, had been the kind who could get hold of the goods of others by cunning or trickery. For wherever something profitable was to be expected, there his mind was; so that he placed himself in many such situations where he might, on some plausible pretext, carry off something. This kind dwell almost where the worst deceitful hellish spirits are, at one side of hell, at man's back somewhat toward one side, verging toward the left flank. For deceits are of many varieties, these having gain as their object. They are about at the level of the shoulder blade.


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