2761. motive than their own power and the possession of worldly goods, and I know that these people had not revealed such characteristics to the people they associated with. In this way I was allowed to learn how depraved the inner character is which had even appeared so attached to their outer character that they were more or less one and the same, while others do not keep it so attached, but separated. Those spirits in the other life also do not show themselves in society as anything but civil minded, and zealously hide their own thoughts, but these are plainly out in the open to those in the inner realm of character. 1748, 7 Aug.