Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 870

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870. Their mode of operating and twisting is quick, by swift movements to and fro which no one can check, and this is accompanied with a sound; and they direct their swift constrictory and restrictory motion upwards, above the forehead. Their operation appears like a cone pointed upwards. Whoever comes within this cone, especially about its apex, is miserably constricted. He is twisted in every joint of his body, so that in the spirit who is being tortured, there is nothing but a kind of reciprocal distortion of everything. This torture, especially that of the joints of the arms, and of the other joints of the body below the head, was seen by me. The reciprocal distortion appears cruel, and the spirits told me that it is more cruel than anyone can ever conceive. When one spirit has been distorted in this way, others, as many as are present and have similar urinous things gathered which must be cast out, undergo the same torture. It is the phantasies of falsities, to which urine in the material world corresponds. They do not, however, distort the region of the head, because the calluses of cupidities are there; whereas by the joints of the arms and of the breast or chest are represented phantasies from reasonings, which thus concern spiritual things and pertain to the spiritual class, as do all those who co-operate, for there were those who co-operated from above, at which I was indignant. Wherefore certain ones who constituted the province of the kidneys and of the ureters there were also sent in, because they are inserted into the bladder and co-operate. They also stood at the side, as do the ureters which are inserted at the side, but in the upper part, as was said, since those who operate and represent the sphincter are beneath. They saw that the torture together with the distress is great.


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