Spirits, especially angels, can tell and sense what [others] are like not only, as said earlier [2181-3], from their speaking, but particularly from their feelings apart from speaking. They very often do not speak except by feelings alone, and their variations, for a mental image in itself, in its beginnings, is nothing but the effect of a feeling, consequently a feeling in small. When something is being expressed by a series of feelings, then from them they are able to tell not only what those who produce them are like, but even who they are, and what place they occupy in the grand body, as I have been allowed by the Lord to find out from lengthy experience. 1748, 7 June.