Some spirits bring with them from the life of the body, and had exercised during their bodily life, the ability to lead others to believe whatever they have in mind, and had thereby acquired that nature by practice. And they do so by inward arts and cunning tricks, looking out for the opportune moment and speaking to suit the others' taste, and so causing them to trust them, and of course with an evil motive, for the sake of gaining distinction, and the like. The nature derived in this way, the inward one, to be sure, has in the other life such an aura when such spirits are let loose, that they can convince anyone who does not have faith, and in fact compel them to believe with such a force that they cannot help it-as it was granted me to learn from actual experience last night when I awoke, and then while awake, when those spirits were still speaking from what was mine and convincing others that they were I [2744].