From experience it has become familiar to me that when the thought is not fixed on any bodily or material subject, then it is spread around to many, and to those spirits and angels who have the same conviction and affection, as when any feeling is thought about in a universal way, apart from any subject, any definite thing, or person. By experience I was given to know, that when the Lord saw it fitting to allow me to remove definite things, and to keep only a general idea of an affection, then I became aware by a spiritual mental image or inner sight that it was moving societies of spirits and angels around me. But when it is determined toward subjects, as said before, then it is as if there were a closing off, and the thought does not thus affect so broadly. But what universal thinking is may not be grasped by those who are engrossed in particulars. 1748, 2 June.