Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1028

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1028. The hardness, the coldness, and the heaviness of the calluses are induced according to falsities, but it is the cupidities, or the loves of self and of the world, which induce them, because all truths and goods are bent into falsities by cupidities, as can be known. There are degrees of cupidities which thus cause this. Though cupidities are what determine, they do not conglutinate. Thence are the determinations before mentioned. 1748, Feb. 26.


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