You will find inner sight spoken of elsewhere [897-902, 1405-9], but from knowledge the same is also established, namely, that human beings in no wise live from their own power, as I today showed spirits by means of a universal mental image. Since each person is only a particle in the greatest human being, and there is nothing whatever in a person with which something in the greatest human being does not interact, it obviously follows that we do not live from ourselves, but from all and each one in the heaven of angels, and in the world of spirits, who arouse everything mankind thinks. And since all are only instruments, and the Lord Alone is Life, it obviously follows that humanity does not live from itself. Moreover, it is clear from actual experience with a spirit that when those with whom he is in closest association are withdrawn, he is then like a dead person, and can neither think nor do anything whatever. 1748, 28 March.