900. Spirits were greatly astonished whenever I said that I can do nothing from myself, when yet they often saw that many changes have been effected from me; and they were still more astonished when I again said that they were not effected by me, but through me, so that it seemed to me that I did them, when yet I did not even the least thing from myself, but it was the Lord. This came to them as a paradox, but still it is a truth which can never be contradicted, nor is it contradicted by any of the angels, but confirmed; and when those spirits heard the confirmations from heaven, they seemed to themselves to believe that it was so, but they do not believe, because they neither perceive nor understand.