Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 825

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825. THERE ARE SPIRITS WHO REPRESENT THE KIDNEYS AND BLADDER IN MAN The spirits who represent the kidneys, ureters, and bladder in man are at the left side of the face, but toward the front, and at a distance between the region of the temples and the forehead, somewhat nearer the forehead. They are such as care nothing for things interior, still less for things more interior, nor do they understand them; so that when I spoke of such things, and they were questioned about them, they said they do not understand them, although other spirits have understood them well. The same spirits also easily become indignant, as though from some kind of envy. Thus they were indignant because there were good spirits nearby or present with me, and they wanted to provoke them in various ways in order to drive them away. Thus they do many things from indignation and from restlessness of mind; nor are they content with their lot, so that a certain property of the urine can thence be deduced. They are present, and I speak with them; they are indignant; they go away; they return. They are many and there is a series of them. Moreover, they are not deceitful; for they act from a kind of irascible envy, but not from deceit; they are like those in the life of the body who are simply called choleric.


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