75.  Spirits there speak with man, but man in his turn does not speak with the spirits, except the words, when instructed, that he will do so no more.  Nor is he allowed to tell any one that a spirit has spoken to him; if he does so, he is punished afterwards.  Those spirits of Jupiter, when they were with me, at first supposed that they were with a man of their own earth; but when I in my turn spoke with them, and also when I thought of publishing what passed between us, and so relating it to others, then, because they were not allowed to chastise or instruct me, they discovered that they were with a stranger.

76.  There are two signs which appear to those spirits when they are with man (homo).  They see an old man (vir) with a white face; this is a sign to speak only what is true, and to do only what is just.  They also see a face in a window; this is a sign to them to depart.  This old man has also appeared to me; and a face has also appeared in a window, on seeing which those spirits immediately departed from me.

77.  Besides the spirits who have already been mentioned, there are spirits who urge contrary things.  They consist of those who, during their life in the world, had been banished from the society of others because they were evil.  When they approach there appears as it were a flying fire, which descends near the face.  They place themselves beneath at the posterior parts of the man, and from thence they speak towards the higher parts.  They say things that are contrary to what the instructor-spirit teaches from the angels, namely, that men should not live according to instruction, but according to their own inclination, and in licentiousness, with other similar things.  They generally come after the other spirits have departed; but the people there know who and what those spirits are, and therefore pay no attention to them.  Still, they learn in this way what evil is, and thereby what good is; for by means of evil one learns what good is, inasmuch as the quality of good is known from its opposite.  Every perception of a thing is according to reflection relative to its differences from things that are contrary in various ways and degrees.

78.  The chastising and instructing spirits do not come to those who call themselves saints and mediatory lords, and who have been treated of above (at no. 70), as they do to others on that earth, because they do not suffer themselves to be instructed and are not amended by discipline; they are inflexible, because they act from the love of self.  Spirits say they know such by their coldness, and that when they apperceive the cold they depart from them.