2894. In general it must be maintained that all things I have written in this book* have not been written in any other way than from actual experience, from conversation with spirits and angels, from thought communicated as tacit speech; then when I was writing, from things imparted by those who for the most part were together at the time while they were being experienced, and from their guidance of my thoughts, the things written, my hand. So everything written in these three books and elsewhere, though here and there disconnected, are nevertheless experiences, and everything in its own way from spirits, or angels-this likewise having been guided by spirits next to my head. For I have in every case perceived their presence. 1748, 23 Aug. * See the preface to Experientiae Spirituales, pages viii and ix.