Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 393

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393. After they have became wearied with that life, from the frequent butcheries and infestations, they are then transmitted into a better state, so that they seem to themselves to be in human bodies, indeed, but their faces are those of monkeys or apes [singarum vel apinior], which can be turned forwards and backwards, and thus they can look around them lest any injury should happen to them from the enemies from whom they flee. They then inhabit beautiful houses and as it were little palaces: and after they have passed their time in this kind of life, they vanish, for their vastation is then completed, and they entirely forget their former life in the world, thus their idolatry; and they are also instructed and thus renewed.


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