Spiritual Experiences-Word Exp. n. 110

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110. * with spirits and those who lived after death. These had not been able to change their mind about things they had accepted in their bodily life. No matter how strongly I was permitted, so to speak, to suggest to them that they be of another mind, and thereby become happy, it was quite useless. They still remained the same as they were before, even if they acknowledged that the things said were true; in fact, there was seemingly a kind of will to live in a different mind, but as far as I could find out, by then it was in vain, for their own mind soon returned. [Good; Character (Nature); Truth]


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