Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 3350

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3350. It is shown that the odors of those who are in outermosts, thus in filthy phantasies, are spheres flowing forth from them: to wit, when to confirm, that the Lord rules the universe, I wrote concerning the soul, that it rules all things of the body; and that the will determines the muscles; then, evil spirits, of the lowest kind [infimi] thought of nothing else than what were the lowest things of man, thus how the soul and will ruled the anus, and excrementitious wipings; hence [arose] an excrementitious odor, which also when odors are perceived, are the spheres belonging to them. - 1748, September 26.


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