Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1047

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1047. I also sensibly perceived a sweet or vinous smell. This is the smell of those who from a certain allowable affection flatter those whom they love in such a way that there is truth in what is said, but there is a kind of formal beauty in which that truth is contained; thence according to its quality comes the vinous odor. This and the previous odor have been sensibly perceived by me. 1748, Feb. 27.


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