295. * battles in myself were portrayed, from which I could have drawn conclusions about the general one; but this was too much work. Let me just say this, that there are countless enemies, that is, as many as there are evil spirits - consequently, as many as there are people led by spirits. Yet these would have to be divided up more or less into their universal kinds, and then into their species, and species of species, and so according to their particular differences. All of these are conquered in their own way, in accordance with the general rule, that is, by the law of retaliation.* [See also WE 6153, further discussing spiritual battles, and concluding the explanation of I Sam. 26.]
6155. Here [I Sam. 28] amazing things happen; specifically, that a woman of the python** or Apollo raised up Samuel. * However, it should be noted that Samuel was certainly not raised up from the dead by a medium, but that this was only a fallacy. It was someone else who was * In the original, almost every line of this and the preceding paragraph is emphasized by the word "Obs." written 14 times in the margin. ** The KJV has "a woman having a familiar spirit," while the NJKV has "a medium."
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