215. CONCERNING THE VARIETY OF CUPIDITIES, AFFECTIONS AND DESIRES All my desires, both of eating and drinking with their varieties, and all things of the senses, also of going about and of travelling, however many their kinds and varieties are, were for a long time so manifestly ruled, changed and varied by spirits and angels, that nothing could be more manifest, as is said, and this during an experience of long duration, lasting for months and years. Hence it can manifestly be concluded that all desires, of whatever kind they are, which rule life and thought, inflow solely from spirits and angels, when God Messiah so permits, grants opportunity, and wills. 1747, Oct. 22, o.s. The variations were slow, and they were sudden; and that I might be confirmed, I conversed with the spirits to whom this permission was granted, and spoke about that variation, etc., etc.