Some spirits were thinking that only I was able, by a spiritual mental image, to contemplate inward matters and be as a spirit, and they had consequently, as usual, guessed wrong. But they were told that all people could be like this, the Lord willing, even those who are very stupid. Then I was reminded of a certain stupid individual several years earlier, who sometimes used to almost orate publicly, and at such times things that he normally never could have known or remembered were called to his mind. Moreover, I was then shown by an experience that when the spiritual mental image was taken away, I was exactly like anyone else in regard to my thinking, which surprised them, and that [the mind] was opened as it pleased the Lord, not only in myself, but also in all spirits, in whomsoever it pleases the Lord to do this. Besides, I had learned earlier by experience, that spirits when brought into this condition would communicate to me something in them, so that I could not tell otherwise than that I had known it and was simply recalling it-even though I later realized that it had been the working of spirits upon me, such as there is of people on earth upon spirits, who think they know what the person knows. The effect was therefore reversed. From the above and many other experiences, one may conclude that the mind can be opened in anyone, in whomsoever it pleases the Lord to do so, so as to contemplate a matter by a spiritual mental image-and to be sure, according to order in those who have faith, but extraordinarily and miraculously in those who do not have faith.