2574. Those who are in the inward realm of the world of spirits use those spirits who are in the outward realm, just as they are accustomed in bodily life when speaking to use the outer realm for thinking and speaking, so there is hardly any other difference except that there they are distinct spirits. In the life of the body, although they are likewise distinct spirits, yet they appear to people as one, or as one in charge, working lower down in a befitting manner, so that they are almost in them, as they also told me. For they put the earthly human being on themselves, although we do not know that we are not speaking on our own. Hence it follows that they put on the very person because they put on the lower spirits nearby, who think they are the person.