When I awoke, I was as usual in conversation with spirits, and at this time some who thought that the life of mankind, spirit, and angel is of the Lord Alone and that they are only receivers of life; and that we merely think we live, and that we are given by the Lord so to think, and that we therefore attribute life to ourselves is the result of fallacy, for we think to be ours what is not ours. Indeed, we think seeing to be the eye's, and hearing to be the ear's, but they are only organs receptive of sight and hearing, just as we think our hands and feet move of themselves, when yet it is not the hand's or the foot's doing, but that of the spirit acting within, as everyone may know who is not led astray by fallacy. The proposition, which slipped in persuasively, was that mankind, spirit, and angel cannot think it is their own and thus to all appearance appropriate it, unless there is also life in the receiver who is able to see and feel this. For a while it remained convincing that it does appear to be so, but I was held fast in the conviction of that truth that life is of the Lord Alone, and because this was contained in their conviction,