1434. This kind of spirit differs entirely from those who arouse from outward things the inward qualities with which they interact, which is the characteristic angels of our earth especially have in common. For people of this earth are mainly absorbed in bodily, earthly, worldly and material concerns, and when they become angels, they arouse the interacting inward qualities, but now caring nothing for outer ones. The spirits of the planet Mercury are not like this, but care only for what is associated or joined [to the outward quality], namely, whatever normally sticks to the memory of places, such as what a person did while he was there. And they said they do not take pleasure in inward qualities brought forth from material ones, but in realities bared of their sheath; for they do not like to look at the sheath. 1748, 16 March. Such cannot exist on our earth, because here all love and had loved the outer, material things. Therefore spirits of our earth cannot be with them.