Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2858

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2858. These are not like those who are deceitful by nature [2848-9] and who consider [their deceit] to be prudence, for when these are present it is detected immediately, both because they like to whisper into one's ears, and because their tone of voice is such that one senses it at once, and their thought leaks out with the first sound of their speaking, the thought being plainly perceived in the other life. The deceitful of this type do not meet with that kind of hell, but a different one. But those who are such that one cannot sense anything but friendship either from their tone or from what they are saying, but who nevertheless harbor the intention of hurting and destroying-they are the ones under discussion.


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