859. * he perceived how those at the antipodes can walk, when, in respect to us, their heads point downwards - for such a situation is so represented spiritually that a man may be placed in an opposite region of the globe. This was, as it were, abhorrent to the spirits [whom he served as a subject] and because they did not perceive it they suddenly vanished, as sometimes happens. He then denied that it was so; but I convinced him that nothing is more true, for all experience testifies and clearly shows it; also that it was something respecting which he ought to confess that he did not perceive it, although it is true, and therefore that he ought by all means to believe it. * In the manuscript, percipit [he perceived] commences a new page, and since it stands out in the margin, and has the heading, "Continuation concerning the spirit acknowledging God the Creator of the universe.", Swedenborg when later numbering the paragraphs took it to be a new paragraph and numbered it accordingly.