1635. Those who have not saving faith can never know, and thus believe, how revelations are made, and how it is possible for a person as to the spirit to interact with spirits by mental images and symbolic displays - not even that the life of spirits flows into theirs, and that spirits think themselves to be people on earth; not even that revelation exists, as it does at this day. 1748, 22 March.
1635. Those who are not in saving faith can by no means know, or consequently believe, how revelations are made, and how man can, in his spirit, act in like manner with spirits, by means of ideas and representations; nor how the life of spirits flows into their life; nor how spirits should suppose themselves to be the men [with whom they are]; nor how there should be such a revelation as is at this day taking place. - 1748, March 22.
1635. Qui in fide salvifica non sunt, nequicquam possunt scire, proinde credere, quomodo revelationes fiunt, et quomodo homo spiritu cum spiritibus possit similiter ideis et repraesentationes agere; ne quidem quod spirituum vita influat in eorum, et quod spiritus putent se esse hominem, ne quidem quod revelatio sit, sicut hodie. 1748, 22 Martius.