In a spiritual mental image I saw what endeavor is, namely, like that of a spirit who endeavors in various ways in keeping with his disposition to assert all his evil, then that is the spirit's endeavor toward all evil. But to the extent that his [evil] is asserted through mental imagery, conversations, or actions, the evil goes forth into act. So every idea is an image of him insofar as it is from him. 1748, 23 Sept. Moreover, endeavors go off into working and effective forces, and where they become effective, they operate according to their own nature, but are received according to the nature and disposition of the person from the Lord, thus again, according to his state of mind. Working effective forces go there again into endeavor,* and so they terminate. 1748, 23 Sept. * Bush and Simpson have "act" (perhaps rightly), without a footnote.