Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1241

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1241. Indeed, such spirits also induce a perceptible anxiety in the abdominal part of the body or region of the diaphragm, so that anxiety is felt when they act. They also induce like anxieties during man's temptations, and when they are permitted unbearable anxieties; I have sustained them for several days during temptation, and even now have felt them though slightly. These anxieties come from them because they are of such a nature and have no extension of thought, so as to acquiesce in more useful and necessary things.


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