Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1663

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1663. The punishment of promiscuity

There was a certain spirit above my head, at a middle height, who had lived promiscuously during his life, and at the same time had read in the Word quite diligently. I heard what this person had been like during life, namely, that he had taken pleasure in variety, and so had loved no woman with constancy. He had lived in brothels, and thus whored with many women, casting off each one afterwards. Consequently, he had cheated many, making no distinction whether a woman was married or not, and in the process, divested himself of all true marital love, as well as the longing to have children. Ultimately, he had done these things without any pangs of conscience, thereby acquiring that unnaturalness, or, if I may so put it, thereby contracting an unnatural nature.


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