About that speech see something said earlier [2632-3], when I was of the opinion that it was such that it could not reach my thought except vaguely, but now by an actual experience it has been shown that it only comes as a mental image that embraces many things, just as when a person thinks in a moment what could not afterwards be expressed by a great deal of talking. It is a mental image that embraces all that is going to be said. These kinds of images were so clearly brought over to me that I answered in kind, nor was there any shadow or obscurity in them. But the reason I did not understand this kind of speech on many occasions was that I was not speaking with them in this way, so it was snatched up, or not heard, as has happened many times. 1748, 6 Aug.