Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1486

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1486. This is the punishment of those who do not say what they think, but plan schemes under the cover of speaking truths. For they are those who when they enter the other life, and perceive that they must not speak otherwise than as they think, and that their companions and other spirits perceive their thoughts, then study how to free themselves from this by speaking truths. But they do this with the design that they may thus be among good societies, and so be able to practice the artifices which they had practiced during their life. By means of such schemes they suppose that they are admitted, and even suppose that no one perceives it, when nevertheless it appears most obviously. These spirits are tossed about in such whirls, and become like hanging garments without a body. 1748, Mar. 18.


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