Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2189

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2189. Nevertheless, they are all very much inclined to guessing, on their own power, what I have learned from spirits. When anything happens, everyone who is given the opportunity guesses that the matter is thus or so, and yet they are all wrong, because they are doing so on their own power. So also, if they were to be given the opportunity to remember things of the past, and to anticipate things to come, then the whole aura would be filled with false guesses, resulting in confusion and the destruction of their happiness.


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