135. Frivolous communications emanate from spirits who are frivolous,
mischievous, and tricksy, rather than wicked, and who attach no importance to what
they say. As there is nothing unseemly in their communications, they amuse persons
who take pleasure in futile talk. Such spirits, however, sometimes come down upon
their interlocutors with clever, biting sallies throwing on, in the midst of commonplace
jokes, hard truths which often hit the mark. These frivolous spirits are around us in
swarms, and take every opportunity of mixing themselves up with the communications
of other spirits. Having no respect for veracity, they take a mischievous pleasure in
hoaxing those who have the weakness or presumption to believe them. Those who
amuse themselves with such communications naturally give access to foolish and
deceptive spirits ; while, at the same time, they repel serious ones, who, like serious
men, avoid the society of the unreasoning and the giddy.
