Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 496

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496. It was said to me that those who are assigned to the spontaneous [or involuntary part] of respiration also govern the sleep of man, for as soon as the voluntary part of respiration is taken away man falls into sleep; then follow the functions of those who are only affections, who are angelic, or genii, who are spirits.


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