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;* whereas 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. * 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."