3278. They appeared after this quite high overhead, saying they had found those with whom they can stay, so they spoke with me from there, showing me what the nature of their speech is, namely, a general one by means of the lips (after the manner of their speech they also moved my lips, in waves), as well as a particular one by means of a motion of the muscular tissues in the lips, an action I could feel only in a general way. When asked whether or not they had faces, so that they could speak with the face, they did not want to tell at first, but feeling obliged lest their bearded man be offended, they showed that their speech extended from the lips toward the eyes, which symbolizes an extension toward the intellect. Later also they symbolize their gladness, or life resulting from the higher knowledge of uses by a streaming of their life into the eye, I think especially the left one. Such is their speech. Asked whether they had no articulated word, they replied that they do not know what the speech of words, consequently what articulated sound is. They know to some extent what sound is, for they speak with me through spirits, or through mental images, which come down into words with me. For their thought consists of mental imagery, as it does with all others, only it does not come down into words, but into those tiny motions of the lips, which comes to the same thing.