Spirits have quite often more or less chided me, saying I have no life, because I have said it as it is, that those on earth, spirits and angels do not live from their own power, but from the Lord, and are merely instruments of life. Therefore they declared that I possess no life in me. It was also because I have said that whatever evil was aroused in me was theirs, and whatever good, the Lord's. This they are unwilling to understand, having made up their minds that I possess no life. They really dislike it when I say it, for they want to live on their own power, and have consequently often complained, indignantly, when I spoke in this way.