For the sake of illustration it is permissible to bring forward just one example of what spiritual mental images are really like. If just a single word is uttered (for all words are mental images), then that same word can be put on, so to speak, [by spirits,] who then live within it. A certain angel, upon hearing the word "servant," put on that very word and then prayed from it, signifying through this display that he is a servant, and is praying as a servant for the sake of showing his humility. But no one realizes that such a thing can happen, except a spirit, or one who is involved in a spiritual mental image. Such phenomena are very numerous. 1748, 27 March.