1804. The third kind are they who bring the greatest harm upon mankind, namely, those who relate to the stagnant fluids within the [cerebral] ventricle. These are of three types, the first, as I was shown, being in the highest place. These speak as gently as if they were inward spirits, so that they are easily able to fool the unwary, as they indeed did deceive some. Their speaking is rapid and soft, and also inward, for they think more than they speak, and when they are deceiving good spirits, they work through their thoughts. In life, these had been people who did not strive openly to control others, because it would have been impossible for them to become princes or kings, or lords, but who had devised to be such confidants and intimates of kings, princes and lords, that these would feel obliged to do nothing except with their advice and judgment. In the company of others they of course boast about this, but when they see that they may be deprived of that power, they speak with restraint, ascribing everything to their prince. They cast on them all blame for wrongs, or else condone them, but claim the credit for any good that is done.