Spiritual Experiences Minor (Buss) n. 4788

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4788. [4825] THAT PRINCIPLES OF FALSITY AND DELIGHTS OF EVIL TAKE AWAY INFLUX. It was given me to know, by living experience, that principles of falsity and delights of evil, thus those things which are of the proprium, take away the influx from heaven and the Lord. I was held in spiritual delight, and there was influx out of heaven; and the affection an thought was varied according to the influx. But as soon as I was left to any delight from the proprium, then the thought clung to it, and thus excluded the influx. Care, and also anxiety, about future events, especially produces this result.


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