3322. I spoke with men of the most ancient Church about their speech, who showed me vividly by communicating their breathing to me, what their speech was like. It was not oral speech or articulated sound, as with us, but [was effected] by communication of their breathing, which seemed to them to pass from the navel toward the heart, and then upwards through the lips. It was not heard by way of the ear from without-thus of the external ear and the eardrum, which external sound flows to and as it were beats on-but by that breathing flowing out through the lips, and entering them through their mouth and nostrils and Eustachian tube, into the ear, and then being perceived. That breathing by itself has with it a complete mental image, I was not aware before, but now I can understand it, both from a certain inner sight confirmed