Five Mem. Relations (Whitehead) n. 3

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3. When these things had been said, I proffered some genuine truths, which, before while he was in externals, he had seen and confirmed; and immediately when he heard them, he turned his eyes inward, acknowledged, and turned his eyes back again, and with a kind of border of the film which covered the pupil, he absorbed those truths, and injected them into his own fatuous light, and then he called them falsities; but because this appeared offensive before my sight, and as it were deadly, since in such a manner he slaughtered truths, from which, nevertheless, a man is a man and an angel is an angel, I abominated his presence; wherefore I turned my face from him; and when I looked back, behold I saw him sinking through a kind of gulf into hell; and because the place where he had stood stank from him, I went hastily home; for the Divine truth falsified by satans, in the spiritual world, stinks like the filth of the streets.


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