Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1162

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1162. That the spiritual produced this effect because they are averse to butter could be evident to me from the fact that, when a certain celestial one was present and I was urged by some desire for butter, I did eat it, and the butter was indeed good. The spiritual then caused the odor of butter to ascend from the mouth to the nostrils so that such an odor might be objectionable to me. From this experience I was instructed that the spiritual are averse to butter.


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