1905. What the reflection of spirits and angels is like, and on what kinds of things they reflect, would be an endless subject to discuss. Without reflection there is no life.
1905 1/2. By being enabled to reflect, spirits have also seen through my eyes, as they have often declared. Whenever I was allowed to let them reflect on objects, they declared that they saw them as they are seen among people on earth, but not except through me. Therefore, since people do not believe they are governed by means of spirits, they cannot be given that kind of reflection. So spirits do not see through man, but are only conscious from his interiors. This has very often been demonstrated to me, so that spirits were able to see the individual objects in the world, and in my imagination, and in my thought. When the door of the mind is open toward heaven, then indeed a certain continuous reflection is given, bringing with it communication of spirits with the person, and because of this they know that they are not the people they are with.