Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 206

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206. THAT "ABRAHAM DOTH NOT KNOW US", AS WE READ [Is. lxiii 16], AND THAT THE ANGELS DO NOT KNOW US For a long time I supposed that the inmost and more interior angels knew what I was doing and thinking, since I was of the opinion that the continual repression of the evil intentions and falsehoods of false spirits came from them. But when, by the Divine Mercy of God Messiah, I have sometimes been allowed to speak with others, who transferred their intellectual ideas to me, they said that they did not at all know or see what I was doing, as did the spirits nearest me, but that they were nevertheless in continual reaction against the endeavors and acts of the evil spirits, that is, of their sphere which they felt most sensitively; but from what cause, or from what man, they did not know. Thus it is God Messiah alone Who acts by means of His angels, Who sees and knows the most single things, and so disposes human endeavors. This is what is meant by the words - "Abraham doth not know us". [Is. lxiii 16.] Today, something ascended to the angels by a certain kind of abstract thought, by which, to their surprise, they were moved; and thus they spoke with me through others. 1747, Oct. 13, o.s. Nor do the angels want to know what is taking place on earth, because they are aware that there is nothing but what is perverse and vastated, wherefore they ardently desire the coming of the Kingdom of God Messiah, hoping that thus communication between themselves and men will be opened.* * This passage is thus entered in the Index (s.v. Angelus): "The angels of the interior heaven perceived nothing of my sensual things; but still they were in a continual general reaction against each single attempt of the evil spirits; concerning this I was instructed by word of mouth, and also from the fact that the angels were all at once given to perceive something which made them wonder whence it was: also that they do not desire to be in earthly things, because these are too remote from them, being perverted, and particulars." Between n. 206 and n. 207 the following unfinished paragraph was crossed out: "THAT THE INTELLECTUAL IS SEPARATED FROM THE VOLUNTARY. It has also been demonstrated by living experience, not only that the intellectual is separated from the voluntary, but also that evil spirits suppose that they are of a good nature, and sometimes well ..."


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