A certain spirit who was shown in various ways that he seems to live, and indeed seems to seem to live, was confused, thinking there was nothing at all of him that lived. So he was shown in various ways that he supposed he sees with his eyes, supposed his hands touch [things], so he seems to himself to have eyes, and to have hands. He was further told that the same is the case with everything else as with the outer senses, which he seems to himself to enjoy [the use of] as when he was a person on earth. It is likewise the case with his thought, which he supposed at that time to be his alone. As it had been shown him before that he thought from others [3134], the society from which or with which he was thinking was removed from him, and then his inward parts seemed to be thinking, and in fact, in a more innocent way. The thinking that had been taken away was placed on my head, so that he could get it back from there. This shows that it was only the society, and its look, that made the thinking and that matter which was put on my head, and that what remained by which he was living was a purer society. It is similar in the case of calluses that are removed [807, 862-5, 951-2, 958, 963-6, 1023-9, 2467-9]. 1748, 14 Sept.