1342. THAT UNINSTRUCTED SPIRITS SUPPOSE THAT THEY TALKED WITH ME BY THEIR LIPS When a certain spirit whom I had known during his lifetime spoke with me, it appeared to me as though he moved his lips, and thus spoke by means of them. When I told him this he said that he did speak with me by his lips. But when I replied that a spirit does not have lips and so cannot speak by means of them, he still insisted, until he was instructed by living proof that it was not so, but that there is a representation of lips and it so appears according to the representation of the spirits. 1748, Mar. 14. Hence the term lips in the Lord's Word signifies ideas and thus thoughts.