1389. THAT THE SAME SPIRIT CONTINUALLY DESPISED ME, BUT STILL HE COULD NOT DEPART FROM ME However much I have striven with that spirit, he still desires to intermingle himself with what I have written, so that he has not been able to desist from it, even though he despises me in his heart. He would like it if only the things that are being written were to come forth from him. He is now back again above my head, and he says that he will continue to remain with me and thus direct [what I write] so that it suits himself. This signifies that there are those who will indeed read what I have written, but who, because they are natural, will still remain in their own opinions, and interpret it according to their phantasies from which they are unwilling to desist, even though they see truths. 1748, Mar. 15.