1205. THAT SOCIETIES, NAMELY THE GOOD AND THE EVIL, SOMETIMES CONTEND RESPECTING THE THOUGHTS OF MAN I have found today by living experience, how heavenly societies contended respecting my thoughts. The spirits who care for corporeal things were outside me, a line above the head, and they wanted to form my thoughts and cupidities from every object of sensation; sometimes they long for whatever they see. A good society within me wanted manifestly to draw me to itself; I perceived the attraction. In the meantime, also, they spoke as to whether they would obtain [the victory]. 1748, Mar. 7.