i understood it to be a term of art not a literal enunciation of a belief that a disembodied deity had possessed the bodies of humans in eastern virginia at the polling booth such a notion would be inconsistent with brat's free will theology and none of the rs that includes this quote have indicated he meant it as anything more than a literary flourish if they were unambiguous he intended to communicate he was in contact with god or some other super being then we'd have something but they didn't right now we're making a scrapbook rather than an encyclopedia article