Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 969

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969. I have also learned this from living experience. There are those who apply themselves to the province of these capsules, and draw to themselves, and thus as it were transmit, the purer kinds of reasonings, although they seem to themselves to retain them; there are, nevertheless, communications with heaven. When, therefore, my thoughts were such that they were immediately carried away from heaven, certain female spirits of that province said that they were affected with great anxiety, and did not know whence it came. The reason came from the fact that thus they would not draw to themselves and communicate spiritual and celestial things, as before; they were then affected with an anxiety to which they had not previously been accustomed.


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