This they concluded because at times there
came to them a sort of recollection of things that they had never
seen or heard. This came from an influx from the memory of spirits
into their ideas of thought.
257. There are also spirits called natural and corporeal spirits.
When these come to a man they do not conjoin themselves with his
thought, like other spirits, but enter into his body, and occupy all
his senses, and speak through his mouth, and act through his members,
believing at the time that all things of the man are theirs. These
are the spirits that obsess man. But such spirits have been cast into
hell by the Lord, and thus wholly removed; and in consequence such
obsessions are not possible at the present time.{1}
{Footnote 1} External or bodily obsessions are not permitted at
the present time, as they were formerly (n. 1983). But at
present internal obsessions, which pertain to the mind, are
permitted more than formerly (n. 1983, 4793). Man is inwardly
obsessed when he has filthy and scandalous thoughts about God
and the neighbor, and is withheld from making them known only
by external consideration, which are fear of the loss of
reputation, honor, gain and fear of the law and of loss of life
(n.
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