160.后来，当我询问他们为数众多还是为数很少时，从他们说话和回答的方式我意识到他们为数众多。但经进一步询问，我发现，对于将内在感官从外在感官分离出来的人而言，在场促成这一切的灵人有很多；相反，对于仅被身体感官引导，其思维被凡出现的任何物体所俘获，不能以其内在视觉长时间地停留在其中任何一个物体上的人而言，灵人却极少。这种人很大程度上只被一种灵人的总体生命力引导，尽管有一些灵人在场，因为每个人都被弥赛亚神引向最终目的。
160. When I asked afterwards whether there were few or many of them, I then realized from the way they spoke and answered that there were very many of them. But then on further inquiry, I realized that with a person who separates the inner sense from the outer, there are very many present, who prompt this; 1whereas with someone who is led only by the senses of the body, and whose thought is captured by everything that comes along and does not dwell very long on any one of them with his inner sight, there are very few [spirits], so that they are led for the most part by a certain general vital force from spirits, although the spirits are nevertheless there, because every person is being led by God the Messiah toward the final goal.
Footnotes:
1. The index at Spiritus reads: "There are many spirits with one who thinks separately from the objects of the senses; and fewer with one who thinks only from the objects of the senses. The latter are ruled by a more general influence." Thus, in the original, instead of "internum ab interno," the intended words were "internum ab externo."
160. Afterwards, when I inquired whether they were few or many, I apperceived from their speech and response, that they were very many. But on further inquiry, I perceived that with the man who separates the internal sense from the external 1there are very many spirits present who effect this; but, on the contrary, there are very few spirits with the man who is led only by the senses of the body, and whose thought is directed to any object whatever, and does not dwell for long upon any one object with internal sight. Such a man is led, for the most part, by a certain general life of spirits, although some spirits are nevertheless present, because every man is led by God Messiah to a final end.
Footnotes:
1. The manuscript has internum ab interno (the internal from the internal), but that internum ab externo (the internal from the external) is meant, is evident from the Index (s.v. Spiritus) where we read, "There are many spirits with him who thinks separately from the objects of the senses; and fewer with him who thinks only from the objects of the senses. These are ruled more by a general influx."
160. Cum postea quaererem, num aliqui aut plures essent, tunc appercipiebam ex loquela et responso eorum, quod perplures essent, sed ulterius sciscitando percepi, quod apud hominem, qui separat sensum internum ab externo 1
, perplures adsint, qui id agunt, at vero penes hominem, qui solum ducitur a sensibus corporis, et apud quem cogitatio vertitur ad quodlibet objectum, nec haeret diu in uno objectu, visu interno, perpauci sint, et sic quod communi quadam spirituum vita utplurimum ducantur, cum tamen nihilominus spiritus adsint, quia quilibet homo a Deo Messia ducitur ad finem ultimum.
Footnotes:
1. The Manuscript has interno; in J.F.I. Tafel's edition: "pro interno legerim externo"; cf. indicem ad Spiritus"