819. IT IS MANIFEST FROM VARIED EXPERIENCE THAT SPIRITS SUPPOSE THEMSELVES TO BE MEN It has been made manifest to me by much long continued experience that spirits know no otherwise than that they are the same person as myself. They have so confessed many times with every confirmation, both when separate from, and when adjoined [to me] in various ways, and they have spoken accordingly. I have been instructed by reflections and by experiences that spirits suppose that only they are the man, both as to his rational part or thought, and also as to his body and the actions of his body, even those that are natural. Thus they suppose that they think, that they act, indeed, they suppose that they are the whole man.