Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1302

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1302. But this spirit was afterwards turned into a dusky blue and later into a black color. He acknowledged indeed that he was a sinner, and that he had suffered himself to be trodden under foot by others, as he said, which he called having Christian patience. Thus he acknowledged that he was the least in order that he might become the greatest in heaven, wherefore he had his own greatness in heaven as his end, despising others in comparison with himself. For this reason he became blacker than the others.


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