Spiritual Experiences Minor (Buss) n. 4742

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4742. [4747] ((THEY WHO IN THE OTHER LIFE ARE SENSUAL-CORPOREAL. DISEASES. They who in the world have lived merely for their owe sake, and in all that they have done have looked to [self], and whatever good they had done to the neighbor has been on account of themselves, in order, that, namely, they might serve themselves; neither have they in any other way considered the public and the neighbor, consequently [have done it] for the sake of their own honor and their own advantage - these, in the other life, become sensual-corporeal men. They are of such a nature that a gross sphere exhales from them, almost like a corporeal [sphere]. Their speech is not like that of spirits, nor have they inwardly those things which are appropriate to spirits, but those appropriate to men; thus a corporeal grossness follows them [Carl Gyllenborg]. The character of their ingenuity, which is gross, and the character of their manners, which are voluptuous, follows according to their nature and to the fact that they ascribe all things to themselves. A certain one of such a character [appeared] not very long after death. It is said that such persons are at first in a lodging place of the vile, and live there; and the lodging place was seen. What sort of life they lead next, was not so fully disclosed, save by one or two who were of such a character, with whom there appeared the semblance of a body. That their future state will be wretched is apparent from this: that they enter into grosser states, thus, as it were into corpses again. They are under the buttocks. [4748] These become, at last, of so gross and so stupid a character, that never any stupidity of anyone in the world is like it.))


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