402. THAT FROM THE DISTANT GENTILES MANY SPECIES OF SPIRITS ARE FORMED THROUGH THEIR IDOLS A soul takes with him from the world the adoration of that idol which he has worshipped in the body; thus [idolaters] are led to those whom they have venerated in the life of the body, in order that they may there be initiated, and successively put off their idolatry. There was one race gathered around its primate. It was told me that they were from the Indies. They worshipped the Greatest God, and indeed with this rite, that when they adored Him, they then magnified themselves in a certain manner, and immediately afterwards, from the idea they had with themselves, prostrated themselves as little worms. Moreover, it was, as it were, implanted in them to regard the whole human race as circumgyrating in heaven, and the Great God on high following with them and watching what they were doing, thus as if He were present and brooded over the circumgyrated sphere. His spirits were so instructed that they might induce upon their Magnate a kind of respiration. His spirits also came to me and induced a like respiration upon me that I might know this from experience. They were modest and obedient, and were acting in their simplicity. Their vortical flow, like that of such spirits, proceeded easily. Afterwards others drew near who settled this in a manner as it were still more simply. 1747, Dec. 26.