For the most part, spirits act in company with many of the same species. With me also they have many times spoken in company - a fact I was enabled to perceive plainly. But besides this, there are spirits apart, seemingly speaking on their own, but who are apart for the purpose of taking in and, let us say, collecting the reasonings of others - in fact, of many species belonging to their own kind - and then of speaking with me. When these spirits seemed to have departed from me, they fell back to their own species in order to pursue a compatible life with them. The diverse species are distinguishable by many indications. They are also differentiated by the sounds of their speech and, when they are conversing and doing things together, by a characteristic murmuring noise. 1747, the 28th day of August (old calendar).