Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 364

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364. THERE ARE NOT ONLY FALLACIES OF THE SENSES, BUT THERE ARE ALSO PHANTASIES AND IMAGINATIONS WHICH REIGN AMONG SOULS AND SPIRITS; HENCE THE APPARENT ACTUALITY It is astonishing that souls and spirits have sensation altogether as in the body. They have the sense of touch as in the body, as when they touch their garments; it is similar with regard to their lusts and appetites, heat, cold, and even sweats, which are as actual as they are in the body, when yet they can be called nothing else than phantasies: but because the sense is real, like that in the body, they are as if real. Similar things are induced upon them by an imaginative direction, which can be confirmed from very many things.


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