Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1066

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1066. CONTINUATION CONCERNING THOSE WHO CONSTITUTE THE PROVINCE OF THE COLON Therefore, these spirits or souls who thus rush to the destruction of the human race have their province or place not far from hell, for there is nothing human in them. But those in whom there is something human, as for instance something just, for the reason that they do not want men to regard them as wild beasts and tyrants, and so for a corporeal reason restrain and thus moderate themselves in their fury, are among those kept within the wall, concerning whom see above, [n. 993]. There is no mercy in them, but only the love of self, and this is hatred of the human race. Thus they are also distinguished according to their distances from hell, as the colon is from the intestines which are continued from the rectum.


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