I have been enabled to observe that spirits know whom they can use as mediums when they are plotting something. They sent them at once to me to be their watching guards [2930]. Then also I observed just now that they saw who was with me whom they wanted cunningly to separate from me, but whom I had not ob-served. Also, that spirits take many things out of my memory, when they are permitted, when I know nothing about it, and so to speak scan everything in my memory while I am awake, and while I am asleep. From this one may conclude that they do likewise from the memory of other people when they are unaware of it, when this is permitted. 1748, 26 Aug.