Spirits have very often become indignant when I was saying and thinking that they do not speak from themselves, but from others whose thoughts stream in and follow the inclination of the spirit [speaking] in his train of thought, so that they are conjoined. The same is the case with those whose thoughts are streaming in, so there are others who are doing likewise with them. When I also several times spoke with them, saying that the same thing applied to them, they too became indignant or felt troubled. Thus there is a kind of chain of the thoughts of one into another that is begun by the Lord, through the heavens, so that there is a kind of uninterrupted mediation, or continuous inflow. 1748, 28 Aug.