Spirits and angels speak metrically, so that their discourse flows spontaneously, without retardation. They use familiar words, nor do they bring in a word that complicates the meaning or leads away from it, also bewaring lest any element of self-love from an artful elegance and combination of words should flow in, for such things are disturbing. They act more flowingly when alone, without the accompanying attention of the people [they speak with], also when these do not cling to a certain word, but to the sense. In my case they ended in unities, for the most part single ones; when in other than single ones, they are brought into a unity by accentuation. These unities are due to the speaking of many spirits at the same time-otherwise many would not be able to speak at the same time. So there must be roundness. The last unity becomes round by the next one, into which the prior one is then rolled. Metric speech goes from inward regions toward outward ones, by means of so called intermediate purposes, all of which are unities. But how the harmony of the speaking of spirits differs from the harmony of the speaking of angels, I have not yet been permitted to observe. These words [were written] on the way.* * I. e., "on the way" from Holland to London.