Today I spoke with evil and good spirits about the collective and the individual influence bearing on every single feeling, evil and good, namely, that there are tens of thousands, in fact many tens of thousands [of spirits] that are responsible for the collective influence, thus the whole heaven of spirits and angels. But there are specific individual influences concerned with each person, which are recipients of the collective influences, and as such they draw upon the collective influence, and are similar to it because they interact. Thus all spirits and all angels individually are focal points of influences, and such as they are, such are the influences they receive, and share with people on earth, each of whom is likewise an interacting focal point of influences. This matter can be understood on the physical level by means of a great number of phenomena in both the atmospheric and the animate aspects of nature. 1748, the 17th day of January. The angels expressed agreement.