On several occasions I have seen that spirits, or angels let back into the state of spirits, when they spoke made out as if it were the Lord Himself Who was speaking, pouring or slipping into spirits the conviction as if the Lord Himself were present. However, after they spoke I was able to recognize from certain signs that they were claiming this, and that they were permitted or inspired to claim it. Now also, toward evening, a similar spirit, or angel sent back as a spirit was with me, and actually very close by overhead, as usually happens, and then the evil spirits around me were unable to attack me, or not anything could flow in from them, for through his presence it was intercepted. But he afterwards said that he had become someone else. It seems that through such spirits there is a presence of angels, with whom the Lord is felt to be present, hence that presence was felt in this case. 1748, 22 Aug.