I have also watched still novitiate spirits, who were not yet accustomed [to the afterlife], swept into the spiritual river spoken of today on the previous page [356]. I observed the resistance of those spirits, but still they were forced to join in and were drawn little by little toward the inward regions, and then as they became conditioned, they joined in voluntarily. At length, after being more and more initiated, they were able to flow with them in almost the same manner; but I doubt whether they were able to speak and to praise along with the others, because they are still in a compelled state, and even if they were obliged to speak alike, still they could not do so with the same pleasure as those who are completely unaware that they are flowing, and speaking and praising, in that pattern - the praise coming spontaneously, in an uninterrupted stream, in accord with the pattern. 1747, the 16th day of December.