I spoke with them and realized that wherever they come, they at once discern from societies of other spirits what they know about the matters that then come up, for the spirits' mental faculty is such that they grasp at once whatever the others know, and what they do not know, thus there is a sharing, as when spirits come to someone on earth. So several times they were allowed to find out whatever I knew about a given matter, just by clinging with their mental imagery to, and thus arousing things in me, either forgotten or not forgotten, that can fall within their aura, as has been made familiar to me on several occasions. Therefore, because they wander around so, they are enabled to learn countless things, which they also retain. But still they admit that even if they know countless things, yet there are countless things they do not know. For it is absolutely impossible in all eternity for them to know even the tiniest detail among the countless things [they know], without there being about that [one detail] countless numbers of countless numbers of things they do not know. 1748, 23 Sept.