Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 940

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940. They who constitute that province are those who persist in hatred, and are obstinately revengeful once they have conceived hatred against someone. But the malignity of hatred differs according to its reasons. Hatred and revenge has its reasons, or motives, which can infect [the whole] person, and so take root.


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