There are spirits through whom other spirits speak, and who hardly understand what they are saying, except the little [they get] from those others while in the act of speaking. They admitted that they do not know what they are saying, yet that they speak anyway. I could hear very clearly that others spoke through them, and that they pass along the speech of others, for such a thing is heard [in the spiritual world] quite plainly, so it is as if they have no ideas, but only voices. In bodily life they had been the kind who had merely babbled, not thinking at all about what they were saying, and who had loved to speak about any subject whatever, whether they understood it or not.