Cinlerin Ruha Sessiz Fısıltısı

The Aërial and Earthly, with art and cunning stealthily approach and deceive men's minds, impelling them to unlawful and unnatural lusts. But how, said I, or doing what, do they accomplish this? Is it by lording it over us and leading us about wherever they please, as if we were so many slaves? Not by lording it over us, says Marcus, but by leading us into reminiscences. For when we are in an imaginative spirit, approaching by virtue of their spiritual nature, they whisper descriptions of sensual delights and pleasures—not that they actually emit distinct sounds, but they insinuate a sort of murmur that serves with them in the place of words. But it is impossible, said I, that they could utter words without sound. It is not impossible, said he, as you will perceive if you only reflect that when one is speaking to another at a distance, he must speak in a high key, but if he be near, he need barely murmur and whisper into the ear of his auditor. And if one could approach the very essence of the soul, there would be no occasion for any sound whatever, but any word we pleased would reach its destination by a noiseless path—a faculty which they say is possessed by disembodied spirits, for they hold communication with each other in a noiseless manner, in the same way the demons hold communication with us without our perceiving it, so that it is impossible to discover from what quarter an attack may be made upon us.