1204. SUCH AS ARE THE PHANTASIES OF A MAN, SUCH ARE THE SPIRITS ADJOINED TO HIM It is a general truth that a man is held in such a society of spirits as are his phantasies; also, that the more he is inflamed by cupidity, so much the greater and worse is the society of such spirits. For the life of a perverted man is phantasy; thus from his phantasies and cupidities it can be recognized with what spirits he is. This has been made known to me by manifold and long continued experience. 1748, Mar. 7.