Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1981

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1981. The way toward inward regions is closed at once, the moment anything of desire or memory comes out by one's own effort

It can be said-although not understood except by a spiritual mental image that made it quite plain to me-that whatever comes from evil, and whatever is taken out by one's own will from the memory, that is, from the person's desire and knowledge, makes everything end right then and there, and the person does not reach the inward regions. The same thing applies to knowledge in the memory as applies to bodily desires.


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