Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1085

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1085. THAT NOTHING CAN INFLOW FROM EVIL SPIRITS INTO HEAVENLY SOCIETIES OR INTO HEAVEN; BUT SPIRITS WHEN THEY PERCEIVE THIS FLEE AWAY I was in a certain heavenly society, although still in the midst of spirits. During the time I was in that society the communication of the spirits who had been speaking with me before, and whose operations had been quite manifestly inflowing, was then perceptibly dulled, so that nothing of theirs could enter into the sphere in which I was. I manifestly perceived this. When a spirit wanted to infuse his communicative forces there was a smooth dullness, as it were. He therefore also lamented, saying, that now he could do nothing, and at the same time he was indignant. He wanted to flee away. Thus no communication of evil spirits with any heavenly society is possible; nevertheless, a like communication is granted by means of spirits of an intermediate disposition, as often as the Lord so pleases. 1748, Feb. 29.


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