1406. As long as people imagine that they lead themselves, and that they understand things by their own power, they cannot possess that inner sight and conviction, and so long they regard that inner sight and those convictions as fairy tales. And perhaps they prejudge those who possess them as being fanatics, believing that what they themselves cannot know, does not exist. However, some who had been teachers in life were still unable to believe this in the other life, but they finally believe, only mentally, what has been proven to them by an experience that can be given to souls in the other life. Yet whether it can be given to people in the body, I do not yet know. 1748, 15 March.