Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 818

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818. Moreover, the appetite of eating can also be excited with spirits, although they know, say, and confirm that they know they cannot eat. Even an appetite for certain foods can be excited, as I experienced today; when I promised to eat certain things today, a certain spirit became quiet. Wherefore, merely corporeal appetites are present for they can thus be excited in spirits by objects with man, and can so be excited by a spirit in man. 1748, Feb. 18.


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