Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1193

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1193. There afterwards appeared only a face with a long, black, untrimmed beard; the mouth was fiery and the rest of the face was only black hair, thus the whole was a beard rather than a face, except that there was something of a small mouth which was yellow, verging to a fiery color. This face signified the sense of the external Word, or its letter, which is dead but still has something of life, which was signified by the small mouth.


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