I firmly and unfalteringly believe that there is certainly a divine method through which a soul takes possession of some material body.

— Honda Chikaatsu Kinmon Hirayama daikyōsei kakka 謹問平山大教正閣下 (1874)

必ずや霊魂の其物体に憑依するの神法有りて、確乎として動す可らざるを信ず。

Original text (Japanese)

Notes from Wikiquote

Suzuki (1976), p. 92 (Staemmler 2009, trans.)