Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1045

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1045. Those who have indulged solely in the study of simulation so that they have thence contracted such a disposition, also those who during their life have devoted themselves to adulatory poetry in which there is nothing but what is fictitious and wordy, and thus in which falses and truths are mixed together, if only they may flatter themselves, and others the odor of these is that of vomit, such as that of the stomach after vomiting. It is a kind of foul stench which contracts the nostrils exciting nausea in others. But there are differences among them, especially in general. There are some who want to deceive with words and praises, and so act solely as flatterers, like those who do so in writings and verses; and among them are those who desire to deceive for the sake of their own honor and gain. I perceived that stench when spirits like those just mentioned were present.


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