1124. When those who are only speaking spirits wanted to copy those who only think, however, they were not able. All their thought is on the language, both when they are talking and when they are hearing others talking. They made an attempt to think, and not to speak, that is, to do as the spirits of the planet Jupiter, but they were not able. Their thought came out in a kind of murmur.
1124 1/2* In addition, there are those who both think and speak, but when the speaking disagrees with the thinking, this is quite clearly noticed in every single word and every single sound. Disagreements between thoughts and speech that became habitual in the life of the body are so conspicuously exposed by spirits that they are aware of them at once, from every sound of the voice. As a result, they are thrown out of the companies of good spirits and they under-go heavy punishments, of long duration. For no disagreement between thought and speaking can be tolerated in the heaven of good spirits, still less with angels. Therefore the foremost need is that they be united, by various methods of torture. For it is preferable for a spirit to be completely depraved than to be self-contradictory in this manner, for therein lies deception, that he tries to fool a companion for his own benefit, or for the sake of profit. They are permitted at times to slip into circles of good spirits, even of angels, but they are quickly ejected from them like foam, and punished. 1748, 2 March. This is how the evil are reduced to their own falsities, and purged, so that there may be no contradiction within them, and they may be of one mind. * The original has 1125 1/2, as does the index at Loqui, Loquela.
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