Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 993

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993. It is similar with those who constitute the province of the large intestine, who are hellish, and also swollen up-nor do they like the possibility of being frightened. These spirits, puffed up like the colon with its gas, wanted to attack him, and jump over their wall, but a new wall was always put in the way so that they could not get at him. It is the same in the human body in regard to the large intestine and the peritoneum, and also the bladder and the peritoneum, as well as the ureters and peritoneum. These organs are enfolded and restrained by the peritoneum and kept in compliance, while it casts unclean elements, the phlegm, into the ureters.


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