Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 180

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180. About spirits of different kinds, and their plays

This past night I also observed that there were spirits who presented dreams, and that their life was dreams, while a person is sleeping. When several persons are dreamt of, each spirit plays the role of one person - a fact that I openly discovered upon awakening, for then I spoke quite a while with those who were acting the part of this or that person. The evil spirits' fantasies are foreboding and cruel, as they delight in treating people cruelly. So that I would realize this, their savageness continued for a long time after I awoke, and they could not desist from it.


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