Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1178

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1178. But I learned that it was not a spirit acting within me, but some kind of abode of angels of the interior heaven who dwell in respect to man at a distance in front, but towards the left, a little higher than his forehead. These are they who cannot tolerate more interior things, but who desire from various causes to remain only in interior things. They cannot tolerate it, for instance, when it is said that the Lord governs the universe, and that there is nothing that is good in man, but all good is the Lord's own; also when it is said that man, spirit, and angel can do nothing of themselves, but are only organs of life. But they want to act also of themselves, thus to attribute to themselves the power of doing good even. These same spirits also attribute merit to themselves in the goods which they had done from the Lord during their life, thus justification as to part, as they now want to infer; and there are similar things which are more interior. There are also the other angels of the interior heaven in a certain kind of abode.


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