267. SPIRITS WHO ARE SENT TO MAN SUPPOSE THAT THEY ARE THE MAN TO WHOM THEY COME Certain spirits, ascending, came to me today saying that they had been with me from the beginning, thus that they were those who had spoken with me from the first; at this I was indignant and scolded them, for I did not acknowledge it. They at length confessed that they had now first come, but that they put on as it were all things of the man to whom they come, so that they suppose that they have been with him from the beginning. It is marvelous that in a moment a spirit puts on the things which are of the man - his knowledges, his language and the like - just as though he had possessed them from the beginning; concerning these things I have also spoken with spirits on various occasions. 1747, Nov. 24, o.s.