Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 517

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517. * THAT THE JEWS ADORE THE DRAGON ALTOGETHER AS A GOD Moreover, as to their body they are like us on this earth; a body was also shown me. Thus they abhor the killing of men and wars.

517 1/2. They speak very little, but they think the more, and their language in which they are skilled is imaginative rather than vocal. From the face of others they can for the most part know what they want, for they are taught to vary their face in this manner. As [the spirit with me] did not like words, he wanted to talk with me by means of thoughts alone. But the imagination, which brings forth the things that have been thought, is such as is speech without words; in this way did he speak with me. He said that he was a dark spirit seeking the One Only Lord in order that he might come into heaven; for it burdened his conscience that he had taken from a companion something of almost no value, which he supposed would have been given him. Moreover, they do not seek their saints, or the shining ones; these are only sought by their servants. * Numbers 517 to 522 are here printed in the order in which they were written. See Special Preface.


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