2869. As for this speech, namely exhalative, so to speak, spirits who were at a great height above the head understood it most distinctly and spoke the things that were being thought, which amazed me, and in fact for quite some time. They also realized that with me it was like an exhalation of speech. And I observed that the spirits were led to speaking by it and could not speak in any other way. When they noticed this and I told them they could not say anything but what they were led to speak, thus not anything on their own, they were indignant. This also happened, was shown to them, and observed many times. 1748, 21 Aug.