Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 991

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991. Afterwards, spirits who constitute the province of the kidneys wanted to examine and explore that spirit, and they began in their own manner to suspect evil things about those [whom he represented]. But yet, he was modest, saying that he did nothing from himself, but from others. Thus he did not seem in any way to have worried or infested them, for which reason I rebuked them; but they still persisted. That spirit then began to swell and to become so great, that like a giant or Atlas, his body reached, as it were, to heaven. In his hand was a spear, but he did no harm with it. Moreover, he had the power to smite with terror, as arms are wont to do, [see n. 881]. These spirits of the kidney, therefore, were terrified and fled away, confessing their fear and terror, because they had never seen anyone so big. The cause of this is that such men become swollen by their knowledges, and magnify themselves before others.


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