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Pàgina 112 - It was often observed, that when I was ' in the Streets, Evil Spirits wished to cast me under the ' wheels of carriages ; the effort was in fact habitual to them. ' To-day I noticed particularly, that they were in the constant ' endeavour to do so. I was enabled to perceive, that Evil ' Spirits made the attempt, and that indeed such mischief is
Pàgina 117 - Evil spirits attempting to infest me 3851. When I retired to bed the evil spirits above the head formed a design to destroy me, and for this end took measures for calling out all hell, and every evil and pernicious spirit. They first drew the dragon over to their side, but because he had been evil entreated by them it was given him to extricate himself. They then...
Pàgina 119 - I eat, wish to eat, yea, not only to seize (the food), as it were, with the lips, but to carry their hands to their mouth.
Pàgina 124 - ... sleep, something was apperceived to flow from the Lord, which he also confessed. It thence appeared that dreams are of a two-fold kind ; one flows in from spirits, who act (the part of) the persons that are seen in the dreams, and precisely as the dreaming appearance is ; the other kind, of which we have spoken before, consists of things introduced by those who are in...
Pàgina 124 - Concerning a State of Peace. 3878. There was a certain one above my head, that spake with me. From the sound I perceived that he who spake with me was in a state of sleep, and yet as if not in sleep. He inquired respecting this and that altogether like those who are broad awake, and with such prudence that one awake could not have discovered more, so that there was nothing indicating sleep except the sound alone. I perceived that good interior angels spake through him, and he in that state perceived...
Pàgina 124 - ... telling what kind of state he appeared to be in, and that he spake nothing else but what was good and true, and that he perceived whether there was anything different (from the good and true) which he would not admit or utter; thus that he was in the state of one who was awake: but because in a state of sleep he said that that was a state of peace. His delight thence arising I perceived from the fact of being myself in a similar state of love, for I am free from all solicitude and care respecting...
Pàgina 112 - Lord, and their endeavors frustrated. Hence it appears that unless the Lord in every, even the smallest moment, preserved man, yea, even the least of his steps, he would immediately perish ; euch is the effort of the world of spirits.
Pàgina 106 - ... of time, .it hath declined from good to evil ; the reason whereof is, because man, during his life in the world is in externals, and only sees what is before his natural eyes ; but the quality of the church at to spiritual thing», which constitute its internals, is not apparent in the world, although in heaven it appears as in clear daylight.
Pàgina 106 - These are they who during their life in the world had lived in external sanctity, destitute of that which is internal, who had been just and sincere in obedience to civil and moral laws, but not in obedience to those which nre divine, and who had consequently been external or natural men, and not internal or spiritual men.
Pàgina 111 - ... to other things how it sometimes is with the objects of smell and the other senses, as also with the objects of various thoughts, as also phantasies, which form spheres, to which correspond spiritual and celestial things, and thence their spheres, that affect according to the quality of spirits, for spheres are, as it were, the atmospheres of spirits in which they live. 1748, 2 Nov.