Some with whom I spoke were shown from philosophical truths, such as that the prime cause and the instrumental cause act as one cause-thus by spiritual mental images-that they who are only tools, or instrumental causes, think that they live, or that they are the prime cause, the acting, living, effecting force. Hence those who were of that nature were so convinced that I was amazed, even though they were evil; so they were beholding truth. Moreover, also when I spoke of universal providence, that there is not any universal except from most singular things, they were likewise convinced, as also was a Philosopher famous in his time, when he saw the things written about forms in paragraphs 649, 660, 676. Those, however, who do not care about such things, delight in them not on their own account, but so that people of that nature can be convinced; therefore they assist them zealously so that they may be impressed by the other things.* 1748, 6 or 8 Sept. * I. e., they help them with philosophical truths so that the higher things may be impressed on their minds.