3104. Another reason why a spirit does not know otherwise than that he is a person on earth, even though he does not see through the person's eyes nor hear through their ears, is that he at once puts on everything belonging to their memory as his own, and whoever puts on a person's memory also puts on the person: for one is not a person by virtue of the body, but of the inward qualities. That they have put on my memory, completely, is evident to me from many experiences. But they do not take possession of the inward memory-this the angels of the Lord possess, who rule those spirits who are below, just as those who are with the inhabitants of Jupiter [see 542], where two are around the head and rule the punishing spirit, who does not know but that he is acting and speaking on his own. If a person has reached the point where his inward memory is ruled by evil spirits of the inward world of spirits, something that is not permitted, then the person can no longer live. 1748, 8 Sept.