1176. But from in their midst I caught and heard a gentle sound, angelic, sweet, containing nothing but orderliness. The angels were on the inside, but the crowd of spirits on the outside. This angelic stream continued for a while, was repeated several times, and I was told that in this way the Lord governs disarrangement and disorder pressing in from round about. For He works from inner peacefulness, and in a peaceful way, so that everything outside or peripheral must necessarily be brought back into order, each component, out of the erring course of its own acquired nature. So He governs the human race, as well as its outer elements, which are the fantasies that determine people's actions and conversation at this day. Thinking to myself, I compared the disarrayed conditions of the spiritual crowd to a storm in the sky, and to the clouds and dust flying through the then unbalanced atmosphere. But the purer atmosphere, the ether, remains throughout in a state of calm, working with a hidden and silent balancing force upon that turbulent atmosphere, bringing it back into equilibrium and rest.