From a spirit now speaking I was enabled to realize whence it is that spirits imagine they speak from themselves and not from others, for at the time spirits think they speak from themselves. Yet from others not only the feeling and conviction is poured in (which is done so skillfully and vividly that the spirit and earthly human never know otherwise but that it is from themselves, as I have been enabled to learn quite well from experience), but then also suitable words follow, sometimes different ones, depending on the speaker's manner of thinking, but this difference does not obstruct the meaning. However, when he is induced by others to say something alien, as happened just now with a spirit, then he says it to be sure, but he knows it is not from himself. For whatever is done from desire and affection, is done freely. 1748, 28 Aug.