Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2082

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2082. Secret inner envy, which is ill will in the thoughts, is much more destructive than that which comes out in hatred, or breaks out in anger, the latter being more easily wiped away. For the secret, inner kind, that of the thoughts, also entails an entering with the thought into the pleasant inward thoughts of spirits, seizing them for oneself, and at once, in one short moment, destroying them. 1748, 27 May.


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