Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 277

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277. THAT A TUMULTUOUS SEA WITH GREAT WAVES WAS SEEN When by the mercy of God Messiah I was led through some habitations of the interior heaven, it was also granted me to view, though not near at hand, a certain great sea, tumultuous with great waves which dashed against a certain boundary that I did not see. It was said that those have such phantasies who want to be great in the world, and to change all things into something new, and thereby acquire glory to themselves; thus it is the elation of the animus with them that produces such a phantasy. 1747, Nov. 29.


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