Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 774

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774. CONCERNING A MERELY INFERNAL CREW At the left side is a hell* where are demons, as they should be called, who being deprived of rationality act from mere instinct; they are not so evil. They are those who suppose that they are doing good, when they do evil; thus those who are there place good in evils. Being deprived of their rationality, they spend their time there and suppose that they govern the universe; but they are then in a dream, as they also said when, rationality having been restored, they came to themselves. * In the Index (s.v. Ratio) this is referred to as an infernal tun.


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