Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 4942

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4942. While I was down there I also heard in one of the rooms a noise which sounded like people on the other side of the wall wishing to break in. Those in the room believed they were robbers and were utterly terrified by them. I was told that those present in this room are held in that kind of fear to deter them from evils, for with some people fear is the means by which they are corrected.


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