I noticed something in myself that can illustrate what the will is. The spirits around me were not in agreement-as I was allowed to find out-about which way I should walk, whether I should go ahead, or turn back. This affected my will, as I went on, not only with a resistance, but even with the kind of burdensome difficulty in going on that is apt to cause fatigue. But as I was enabled to see by actual experience, as soon as they agreed that I should go ahead, there was a quickening in walking that made my steps easy. Then I also saw that when spirits are granted leave to do so, they were able to guide me at their will to wherever they wanted, to lighten my steps to ease my progress, even on steeper stretches-it was as if I were carried up by them, something that has happened several times before. 1748, 8 May.