Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2080

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2080. There are many species of this kind of envy, for there were troops of them, but other sorts [behaved] differently, which I was not enabled to observe so closely. They were moved by envy at anyone feeling enjoyment. Some attacked the enjoyment more openly, some more hiddenly, some by slipping into the enjoyments, some by destroying them because they had come to hate them.


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