Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 969

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969. This, too, I have learned from actual experience, for there are also some who constitute the province of these capsules and perform the duty belonging to them. This is to draw the purer reasonings to themselves and pass them on, so to speak, although it seems to them that they keep them. But they are still communications with heaven. Consequently, when my thoughts were of the kind to be directly taken up by heaven, some female spirits from this province said that they were moved with great anxiety, and they did not know its source. Yet is was caused by the fact that in this case, they were not drawing to themselves the spiritual and heavenly elements and communicating them, as before, and for this reason, were feeling an unusual anxiety.


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