Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 909

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909. That their life might be described, there appeared to me a dark room, which I do not remember. From this room came one who during his life had been of such a nature that he could attract the goods of others to himself by cunning or other wiles; for wherever anything of the kind was to be anticipated, there was his "animus". For this purpose he would also meddle in many such things, that under some plausible pretext, he might take something away. Such spirits dwell in that room, almost where are the worst and most deceitful infernal spirits, at one side of hell, at man's back verging somewhat towards his left side; for the deceits having gain as an end are manifold. They are in about the plane of the shoulder.


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