Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 963

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963. When spirits hold back their phantasies in this manner, if this is then represented before the eyes of spirits, it appears as though something was as it were lifted up, as you may see stated above concerning the corporeal callus [n. 958]. This, however, is only the detention of their minds [animus] upon such things so that they may thereby become quiescent. They cannot work together with interior things since these do not appear. An interior medullary substance, as it were, then appears, and because they keep their eyes intent on things more exterior than the end, it therefore appears as though it were raised up to their eyes, and thus subjected to their sight.


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