3258. As for the inner sense to which the spirits of Mercury relate, it is such as to be a memory, and indeed a memory of particulars, but of things, not images. For the memory of personal matters contains visual images, which are mental pictures, thus images of earthly and bodily things, and [it contains] subjects, such as laws and the deeper knowledge of laws, also of faith-such as that there is nothing but evil with man. The latter aspect of memory relates more closely to thinking, because it provides the thinking with subjects for thinking more deeply, thus passes to speculation and establishes it. The spirits of Mercury relate to such memory; and what is amazing, they know so many things that exist in heaven and hell, and that pertain to subjects, that one cannot marvel enough. And what they once perceive, they retain, even if they do not know that they know it, but as soon