Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 4749

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4749. There was another whose exteriors were full of haughtiness, but his interiors good. It was (Ericus Benzelius).* He, in the world, placed himself before all others; he despised all others in comparison with himself, except one who excelled him in memory; he placed everything learned and wise in memory; he was in the doctrine of the Church from memory and not from himself; and, being of such a character, he was not permitted to defile his internal. He at first suffered hardships in the other life. There appeared about the cerebrum, as it were a bony skin, which was several times broken with great pain; and then he was brought into his interiors, which were good, and was then like an infant. He was instructed, by angels, in a mode accommodated to him. * Dr. Achatius Kahl, in his Narratiunculoe (page 9) and the Rev. Prof. R. L. Tafel, in his Documents (Vol. I., p. 608) consider this Ericus Benzelius to be younger of the two men who bore that name.


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