Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1270

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1270. In the meanwhile he inwardly thought about nothing else than revenge, and this so secretly that I did not perceive anything of what he was thinking. He called forth in everyone his own objects. From my "animus" he called forth that which he could pervert into evil and thus into hatred, and in this way he fed himself continually. Indeed, he held the things thought by other spirits so bound that they could not be released from the things which he had spread about. I also noticed this in myself, namely, that he could hold my interior thoughts fixed, as it were, and could bend them. This is that viscous quality of the mucus.


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