When the spirits belonging to the province of the eye, who are good, have seemed to roll off the little membranes of the eye toward the narrow part of the nose [1106], then something shining appears to the soul, but dimly, as when a person while first waking up, looking through his eyelids, sees a kind of brightness. Nevertheless, he now lies in a state like that between waking and sleeping because he is guarded by the heavenly [angels]. So he is in a calm state of mind, because their state is a calm one. When there is this looking, as if through the eyelids, there appears something shady, of a heavenly color, with a little star; but this occurs in various ways.