Many times I have observed that persons who had been endowed in the world with the highest dignity, such as kings, who were born kings and derived this from infancy, are endowed with dignity [in the other life] and are above others, being unable to hide or cast off that aura until after many years, perhaps 100, 1000. Nevertheless, the aura of that dignity is joined with the aura of uprightness and goodness in such a way that it does not trouble anyone. To those who were born such and are upright and good, a certain kind of appropriate subordination is shown by moral spirits, for an upright spirit has the quality of hurting no one, and being favorable to everyone. For this reason I was inspired to tell a certain spirit who did not have the appropriate aura [of subordination], when he was found out to be different, that there was something lacking in him by way of outer restraint, and that when this is lacking, he easily falls into his own nature. 1748, 15 Sept.