In the heaven of spirits, good spirits feel as if the Lord is there, outside of them, so that faith in Him is poured around them. I have experienced this in several ways, and for quite long periods, in various ways. Once it was as if I was flooded about by the Lord Himself; later it happened differently, as if I am being held in my faith by an outside [force], and my mind is not released without being [kept] in a kind of aura of faith.

1534 1/2. When there were spirits present who would cause me to waver and this kind of atmosphere consequently became somewhat weakened, then I had to fall back on general principles, especially those which need no demonstration, and also to those which obtain in our body: that the soul governs the body and its very diverse functions as a single unit, and that the will by itself commands a thousand muscles at a single moment.