Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1156

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1156. Moreover, there are other robbers who are not as assiduous as are those who are possessed with such a disposition that they want to rob, and so they associate themselves with the active robbers. One of this sort was afterwards shown me at the right side beneath the arm. He did not say anything whatever, but only gnashed with his teeth, as manifestly as a man does, which was heard as a horrid sound, and this for so long a time, and so plainly, that I supposed that it was something else that was making the sound; and I inquired. He also was with those at the left side, not far from the ear. Such, therefore, are those who preside over liquid or urinous excrements.


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