Spiritual Experiences Minor (Buss) n. 4783

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4783. [4817] He proceeded still farther to the front, and descended into a cavern. It was said that no one had been there before. In that place, are they who have been devoted to prayers, and who concealed, beneath their piety, cruelty against the neighbor. He said of these also, that they were like corpses: a cadaverous exhalation, too, was wafted thence to me. These are those who are of an exactly opposite character to the celestial [angels], and are genii. But those, about whom I have previously spoken, who are opposites to the spiritual [angels] are spirits. The former, namely, those who are opposites to the celestials, or such genii, also inflowed into the pulse.


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