3265. In short, the inhabitants of Mercury are the memory of subjects, separate from the memory made up of images of bodily and earthly things. From that memory comes speculation, which is so to speak an inward imagery, or rather, the mental imagery of realities. It is a thinking of these mental pictures that [makes] their speech by which I was allowed to speak with them earlier [1428], and I said that I spoke with them by actual thought.
3265. (In a word, the inhabitants of Mercury are the memory of things, separated from the memory of images [derived] from corporeal and terrestrial things; from which memory [of things] is speculation, which is as it were interior, or rather the imagination of things; thought is of its imagination, which is their speech, wherewith it was previously granted to speak with them, and it was said that I spoke with them with [by] living thought.)
3265. Verbo incolae Mercurii sunt memoria rerum, separata a memoria imaginum ex corporeis et terrestribus, ex qua memoria speculatio, quae est quasi interior seu potius rerum imaginatio, ejus imaginationis cogitatio est, quae loquela eorum, cum qua prius [1428] loqui datum cum iis dictum quod loquutus cum iis cogitatione viva.