822. That they are instructed in like manner by means of other men, although they do not know it, can be evident to me from many things that happened to me before I spoke with spirits; and if I had reflected upon the several occurrences at the time, I would have been sufficiently confirmed in them, and could have confirmed every one by experience alone. Although this is also effected in like manner by means of spirits, and by a thousand other ways unknown to us, it is not on that account to be doubted but that it is by the omnipotence of the Lord.