Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 68

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68. [THAT MAN RULES THE SPIRITS] Spirits were with me who did not know that I could speak with spirits. It pleased them that spirits rule the man, and that they are the man; but it displeased them that the man answers back, that he explores their genius, and that he rules them. (Homo, Spiritus.)


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