It has happened to me several times that I judged that the Lord Himself was present and spoke, as He has also done with others. But the fact is that it is the Lord at these times Who* appears, through others, who are then not themselves, and they suppose likewise that they are the Lord. This thought streams into the thought of the one in whom He is, when he is nothing, and the Lord through him then appears in the other's form, for his form still remains. Today I was able to perceive this clearly, for the Lord does not wish to change completely the form or character of another and then to appear through the other. In this way also the Lord speaks through another. 1748, 30 Aug. * The original has "who Who."