2. Let all the articles in four treatises ¹ be set out in their order.

Voetnoten:

1. DE DOMINO: PRAEFATIO

Quod revelatum sit a Domino de coelo et inferno, de ultimo judicio quod peractum, de spirituali sensu Verbi, ita revelata est via ad salutem, et de statu hominis post mortem, et hoc plene et manifeste, ut quisque qui intelligit linguam Latinam scire possit, et hoc nunc ante ¹ annuum tempus, et communicatum; sed usque Ecclesia non id curat; miratur quam maxime in coelo quod Ecclesia in tali statu sit ut illa quae sunt ipsa essentialia ejus ² ne quidem spectentur, sed relinquantur sicut res non alicujus momenti, ³ indicium quod coelestia nihil occupent mentes eorum, nec videantur quando revelata.

Voetnoten:

1758. The speech of spirits takes different forms. Each community, or group of spirits, can be identified by its speech; indeed each individual spirit can, in almost the same way as men. They can be identified not only by the affections which bring such speech to life and which fill out or support the words they use, and by the intonations they use, but also by the actual sounds as well as by other characteristics which cannot be explained so easily.