2842. It is not theirs that an earthly human, a spirit or an angel thinks, speaks, and acts
There were some evil spirits who were stubbornly denying that they think, speak, and act from any other than themselves, so it was shown them by some 4, 5, 6 live experiences more or less, that nothing comes from me, nothing from himself (but from where, the spirit still does not know), so that he finally admitted that nothing originates except [from] without and that he imagines it is theirs, and his own, whereas they are very much mistaken. This is the confession of those evil spirits in a perceptive state of experience. 1748, 17 Aug.