There were very many spirits and angels around me, perhaps in the thousands, who were shown by actual experience how easily the universe is governed by the Lord. It was granted me to flow in, through thoughts, as if I were governing those round about. It was by one single thought, with its variations, that all things even to the very least were being arranged as if by a nod, both in giving happiness to some, and in doing other things, variously according to whatever I thought. In this manner, [I was giving] to every spirit associated with me, even to spirits quite remote, each in their own way. From this we were able to learn how easily all and the least things are coordinated by the Lord, Who is in the highest, thence in the innermost, the very inward, and the inward regions. This the spirits and angels could not but corroborate. For some doubt it for the reason that such a huge multitude hovers in their mental imagery, and such a great variety, but the reply to them was this, that they are reasoning from the imagery of the lower part of the human being, where it so appears, while from the innermost parts, as from centers, the whole region round about, so to speak, is ruled most easily and with no trouble. It is seen differently by those who are in the peripheries. To them things appear the more obscure, the farther they are from the center. 1748, 7 June. * 2233 is omitted in the ms.