Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1255

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1255. THAT EVEN THE EVIL AND UNBELIEVING, WHEN IN COMPANY WITH GOOD SPIRITS, SPEAK TRUTHS, AND INDEED BELIEVE THEM I heard two spirits who were infernal, but who nevertheless spoke truths as if from knowledge, thus from faith, although they are infernal and in other respects they could not know, still less believe them. And by living experience it was shown me that they are then in the company of good spirits, so that they speak from them as if from themselves, for the evil know, and wish to know, no otherwise than that they have all things from themselves.


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