Very often earlier I had heard [141, 481, 1876, 2142, 2308-9] that spirits were conversing among themselves-just now, also, and in fact just as people on earth do among themselves, [but] about matters in the world of spirits and in heaven, and a variety of subjects. Good spirits love to instruct others about things they do not know, as I am now hearing silently, as before. So that life is like the life of society on earth, with the difference spoken of here and there [1167, 2103]. 1748, 27 Aug.