1988. The subject of inner sight was also discussed with them, which in those who have true faith is so clear that they not only acknowledge that they think, and are able to think, nothing by their own power, nor to will, and thus to carry out anything, for action by all means follows the will; but they also sense inwardly that every least thing is by the Lord's power, and they are constantly kept in that thought. Therefore, at the Lord's good pleasure, they even perceive what is within a given thought, where it comes from, and from which spirits-and sometimes, what they are like, and what their thoughts are, what they are saying or thinking among themselves, what their different feelings are, what influences of angels are present, among many other points. For [those who have true faith] are just like spirits in the other life, as spirits have very often declared about myself, unaware that I was in the body. 1748, 18 May.