Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1293

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1293. A black spirit was sent down into this place because he could not be admitted into the other hell, perhaps for the reason that he as yet tarried among the spirits above. Since he could not be plunged into that other hell, he was therefore sent down thither. But the spirits who were there fled away, saying that he was black, and therefore a robber who would kill them. He had such a mark upon him that they fled away as from a murderer, and when he said that he would not kill them they still did not dare to remain. They would rather, as they said, leave the riches which they seemed to themselves to have accumulated there, and deliver them up to be pillaged; for they were greatly terrified for their life, but they were guarding lest he should despoil them of what they had in their coffers.


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