75、在木星,灵人能与人说话;但反过来,人不能与灵人说话。人在接受教导的时候,只说一句话,他不再这样做了。他不可告诉任何人有一个灵人曾与他说话;否则,他以后会受到惩罚。当这些木星灵与我在一起时,他们一开始以为他们与自己星球的人在一起;但当我反过来和他们说话,并且他们看见我正想着公布这些事,因而告诉其他人我的经历,而这时他们没有被允许惩罚并教导我时,他们意识到他们与另一个人在一起。
75. While the spirits there are able to talk to people, the people are not allowed to talk back to the spirits except to say, once they have been instructed, “We won’t do that anymore.” They are not allowed to tell anyone what the spirits who were with them said, either. If they do, they are punished afterward.
At first, the spirits from Jupiter who were with me thought that they were talking with someone from their own planet; but when I responded to them and even said I was thinking of publishing and thus communicating to others things like this, and told them they would not be allowed to punish or instruct me, they realized that they were not with someone from their planet.
75. In that world spirits talk with people, but they do not in turn talk with spirits. The only thing they say is, when instructed about something, that they will not do it any more. Nor are they allowed to tell anyone that a spirit has talked to them; if they do, they are afterwards punished. When the spirits of Jupiter were with me, they started by thinking they were with a man in their own world. But when I talked back to them, and also thought I should like to publish and tell others about my experiences, while they were not allowed to chastise and instruct me, they realised that they were with someone else.
75. Spirits there speak with man, but not man in turn with the spirits, except these words when he is instructed that he will do so no more. Nor is it permitted him to tell any one that a spirit has spoken with him: if one does this, he is afterward punished. Those spirits of Jupiter, when they were with me, thought at first that they were with a man of their earth; but when I spoke in turn with them, and they saw that I thought of publishing these things, and thus of telling others, and it was not then permitted them to chastise or instruct me, they perceived that they were with another.
75. Spiritus ibi loquuntur cum homine, non autem vicissim homo cum spiritibus, solum haec verba quando instruitur, quod non amplius ita faciet: nec licet ei dicere alicui, quod spiritus cum illo loquutus sit; si hoc facit, postea punitur. Putabant Spiritus illi Joviales, cum apud me erant, principio, quod essent apud hominem suae telluris; sed cum loquerer vicissim cum illis, et quoque quod cogitarem talia velle publico dare, et sic dicere aliis, et quia tunc non licebat illis castigare nec instruere, animadvertebant quod apud alium essent.