Thus also is the conjunction
of many with one effected by turning.{1} But of these emissary
spirits, who are also called subjects, and of communication by means
of them, more will be said hereafter.
{Footnote 1} Spirits sent from one society of spirits to other
societies are called subjects (n. 4403, 5856). Communications
in the spiritual world are effected by such emissary spirits
(n. 4403, 5856, 5983). A spirit when he is sent forth, and
serves as a subject thinks from those by whom he is sent forth
and not from himself (n. 5985-5987).
256. An angel or spirit is not permitted to speak with a man from his
own memory, but only from the man's memory; for angels and spirits
have a memory as well as man. If a spirit were to speak from his own
memory with a man the man would not know otherwise than that the
thoughts then in his mind were his own, although they were the
spirit's thoughts. This would be like the recollection of something
which the man had never heard or seen. That this is so has been given
me to know from experience. This is the source of the belief held by
some of the ancients that after some thousands of years they were to
return into their former life, and into everything they had done, and
in fact, had returned.
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