1254. Moreover, I also clearly perceived that the individual spirits were likewise the subjects of similar representations by other spirits, thus they were never alone, but were as centers for the action of many; wherefore each single spirit was a troop of spirits, so that as many as are the spirits, so many are the centers for more spirits, for each one is such a center. This may seem surprising and even incredible to everyone, but if men were instructed in the suitable knowledge they could know that this is not incredible, because something similar exists in each member, muscle, and part of the body, likewise also in nature and in the atmospheres as well as in vegetation, namely, that there can never be a one except from many, and that there is nothing that is not in society and in mutual consociation, and that separately from such consociation they could never do anything, still less could they contribute to a single thing and so to the general. There is such a connection between the heaven of spirits and that of angels, that is, a connection by mutual consociations which taken together constitute general forms, and these in a like way a universal order. 1748, Mar. 9.