3285. The things written about these spirits of another solar system, ¹ that they did not rest until they reached the ninth use [3270-3274], happened to me this very day, as if I had absolutely seen the same things before, ² and likewise had pondered what these progressive uses mean, so that they appeared absolutely to have been shown to me before. This happened just as I had formerly thought such recollections occur, when yet the things remembered had not previously taken place. About these Cicero also wrote. ³

And I think this comes from the spirits of the universe, for they want those matters not to be called to mind, so they inject such a recollection. This also shows the source of so lively a recollection of such things; and that they can do this so vividly, comes from their life, which is very much like a persuasive one. For when they hold anyone in such a persuasion that they are that person's life, then the person cannot help thinking so.

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3270. After some talk, and exploration, it was made apparent that these pay attention to nothing but use. The first thing raised they do not care about, but the use of it, whatever the uses may be of any objects whatever (they want these words to be said), but they do not stop at that use, but at the use of it, nor at the latter one, but at its use, up to the ninth use, where they stop - because this is their nature.