5172. There are certain upright spirits who do not have to cogitate and who can therefore express quickly whatever ideas occur to them without having to think about them. They enjoy an interior kind of perception, which does not reveal itself in thought and reflection, as is the case with other spirits. For during the course of their lives they had taught themselves about the goodness of things but not so much about the truth of them. I have been shown that such spirits belong to the province of the Thymus Gland; for the thymus is a gland that is primarily of service to young children, at whose time of life that gland is soft. With the spirits who belong to that province a child-like softness is preserved into which a perception of what is good can flow; and from that perception a general impression of what is true is created. Those spirits can be in the midst of utter turmoils and yet they themselves are not in any turmoil, as may also be the case with that gland.