When I was doing some writing, a spirit who was nearby at the left, when it was finished, thanked me for having helped him while writing. I realized that he imagined he was myself, as usual. He departed, and told others that he had not known otherwise than that he was writing, but he did not know whether he thought the hand that was writing to be his own, saying to another spirit that it was. And I suppose that if he had been with any other person [than myself], he would hardly have known differently than that he had been writing with his own hand. Such are the joint workings of spirits together with man. There were others also, farther away from me, who wanted to claim for themselves some [of the action]. Thus it becomes clear how spirits work together [with man]. 1748, 19 March.