I have also spoken with spirits by mental images alone, without words, and they understood just as well as when I spoke with words. I only portrayed things by inner sight, such as when I portrayed the things I was eating by inner sight, without words, and they well understood. If I pictured them together, whatever people have on the table, or whatever clothing one puts on, or just whatever is in sight, spirits at once understand, and see them. Some understand and take in the language of mental images better than speech by means of words, for they live in such imagery. Sometimes [I have spoken] by nothing but subtle thoughts, and they grasped them better than if I had spoken with words. Some do not like to speak, but are so discerning that they grasp the meaning at once, together with the feeling, and in fact instantly. For it is not memory that is working in them, but natural character. They do not like to admit this, thinking they have a memory such as they did in bodily life, but because they put on the memory of a person on earth, they have this opinion due to fallacy of the senses. 1748, 8 June.