I have long wondered how it happens that now this spirit was speaking, now that one, at various distances, how one would take over when the other finished, sometimes in the midst of an utterance, and thus in different ways. It was granted me to learn the cause, namely that those spoke who were most moved during the discourse by the ideas it contained, so that it passed over to those who were more touched than the others. For when anyone's feeling is aroused, the person is aroused. Besides this, they were also aroused to speaking in another way, namely by spirits who were stirring them because of mental imagery directed to them, so that they would either speak with them, or for them, or for the sake of deceptively imitating a different person, whom they were substituting. 1748, 27 June.