598. CONCERNING SPIRITS IN A PROPER SENSE, WHO ARE NOT GENII, BUT SPEAKING SPIRITS Properly speaking, spirits are those who only love to speak, and who are the subjects of the speech of many others. They are also distinguished into genera and species, likewise into classes. They wish to be called intelligences or knowledges, and suppose that they are the only ones who know, yea, who govern all things, each in a different way. In every degree there are such spirits, and there are their spiritual [subjects]. They think little, however, although they suppose that they think more than others. But I cannot as yet recount their differences.