I have sometimes been surprised that I had not noticed my speaking, like my thought, being determined by spirits. Today I was given to learn that the thoughts and will of a person are directed by the Lord through spirits, and that the speech follows from the thought according to the mental images of the thoughts, the speech being a natural consequence, resulting from order. Whatever is according to order is not [controlled] as directly through spirits as thought and will. * 2798 is wanting in the original.