Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1278

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1278. When the spirits from this very deep hell were bound together, the things in my stomach were so rolled about that I was compelled to throw up what I had eaten; for as soon as they are present they bring about a change in the sphere of the spirits, because they have with them a poison, as it were, and desire to infuse their poison into man, the effect of which was the vomiting. For as they had desired to kill men by poison during their life, so this desire is inseated in their "animus", and they breath it forth. Hence this effect is from them, not as on other occasions from emetics and from partaking of too much food, but I perceived that it was the effect of such spirits.


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