1659. The ones who had been with me before liked to be called angels because of the nature of their speech. But it was proven to them that here it is possible even for evil spirits to speak in such a rarefied and imperceptible manner. For it is their thought [that is speaking], which some evil spirits use to lead other spirits astray, as well as to distort the thinking of people on earth, as they have frequently tried to do to me. Nevertheless, it is a different manner of speaking, seeing that the spirits of our earth are unable to express their speech in the face.