Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 915

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915. So that it might be plain to me what those spirits are like who constitute the province of that funnel in the heavenly body, there was a company of them, acting as one person. He heard me speaking, and [although] I did not manage to speak with him, nevertheless he either applied to himself whatever was said, thinking it was being said about him, or he became indignant, constantly scurrying toward me and away from me - in imitation of that fluid in the ventricle, which is constantly being driven back and forth from the vertex to that horn of the funnel. They are quite impatient and cannot be held down, are quick, attentive to details. Whether they are bound by definite principles, cannot be determined. Thus they are also among the inward excremental materials - cowardly, inconsistent, suspicious.


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