Spiritual Experiences Minor (Buss) n. 4597

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4597. There appear callosities in the skin of the head and in the skull, to which they attached themselves. In each of these they produced pain, unless, perchance, they [the callosities] should be softened; for they correspond to the things upright and true, which are in the left side of the skull, which was the first plane where the softening took place. The bind in occur, for the reason that then, spirits are correspondently associated, who are of such a character that they know nothing save the generals of faith, not the particulars, and still less its minute details; thus, such as had a general love towards the neighbor, without any consideration as to who is the neighbor, or what is the nature of love. These persons greatly abound at the present day, and suffer themselves to be seduced by every deceitful, hypocritical and dissimulating spirit: yea, neither do they apprehend that they are of such a character, although they are told. They are, for the most part, sensual, and enter little into reasons. They constitute the skin: these ones, the skin of the skull. I spoke with the. They said that they have no feeling of horror on account of criminal actions, let them but put on a sweet and good appearance; and they suffer themselves to be persuaded with difficulty [that they are criminal]. There is a considerable diversity of such character They correspond to the skin of the skull in various parts. There are some who are towards the occiput, some towards the forehead, some at the face, others at the skin of the rest of the body. Hence it may be evident, how necessary it is to imbue knowledges of rectitude and truth, and to act according them, and to confirm love I think that many such are in the man Catholic religion, where they have no acquaintance with the truths of faith, but are persuaded by the monks. But their affection is general; and this [affection] is on account of the-desire of the salvation of the soul, after death.)


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