Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 664

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664. CONCERNING THE DREAMS OF SPIRITS I wakened during a dream, and there appeared to me a spirit who still continued the dream. I could thence observe the state of spirits in dreams, which is scarcely different from that of man. For the exterior or corporeal things which remain in the spirit are quiescent, like the corporeal things of man in sleep, as I manifestly perceived; for this spirit could pay attention to nothing whatever except to that which was then being turned over in his "animus". He was talking as though he did not know that he was talking; his externals were asleep, his internals were thus in a dream. 1748, Feb. 7.


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