Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 694

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694. CONCERNING FAITH Today, I also spoke with souls and spirits concerning faith: that the faith of Christians at this day is the faith of the memory, thus only of the mouth, and so outside man; but there is almost no faith within man at this day, for their works manifest the quality of their faith, namely, that it is the opposite of faith. Such is their disposition in the other life, where, when they want to inquire where faith is, [they are told] it is outside man, thus as far away from man as the moon is from the earth.


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