160. Afterwards, when I inquired whether they were few or many, I apperceived from their speech and response, that they were very many. But on further inquiry, I perceived that with the man who separates the internal sense from the external* there are very many spirits present who effect this; but, on the contrary, there are very few spirits with the man who is led only by the senses of the body, and whose thought is directed to any object whatever, and does not dwell for long upon any one object with internal sight. Such a man is led, for the most part, by a certain general life of spirits, although some spirits are nevertheless present, because every man is led by God Messiah to a final end. * The manuscript has internum ab interno (the internal from the internal), but that internum ab externo (the internal from the external) is meant, is evident from the Index (s.v. Spiritus) where we read, "There are many spirits with him who thinks separately from the objects of the senses; and fewer with him who thinks only from the objects of the senses. These are ruled more by a general influx."