162. It also seemed remarkable to me that similar places became known to me, where I also talked with them, and that later, although I was a hundred miles distant, I could converse with them as if they were present, for distance is of no account; but this was only when it was granted by God Messiah. I have sometimes spoken with spirits about this, and I have demonstrated it by human sight which, in like manner, sees very distant objects as not distant, like the sun, the moon, the stars. What, then, must be communication with spirits who are within that grosser nature in which is sight! In this way there is communication of angels and spirits with man, even at the greatest distance. The presence of those spirits with me was a fallacy of the sense, for presence is simulated when the spirits are akin to man's thought, namely, those spirits who mediately and proximately are to administer the things which God Messiah wills and permits. These things (occurred) 1747, Aug. 24, o.s.