2379. I was also enabled to learn how it is when spirits are not close to a person, and yet there is an influence from certain societies. There was a certain general driving force that cannot be described, but it cannot appear to anyone, for it is miraculous. A person who is not in order, but against order, cannot exist unless there are spirits joined to him or her, and by means of them channels of communication with whatever societies agree with the person's life. For I have also been shown what sort of societies had been joined to people in the other life, similar to themselves.