2553. for human thoughts to flow into the heaven of angels, for heaven [flows] into [human] thoughts. And because it had appeared to them sometimes that my thoughts so to speak flowed into heaven, therefore some of them, concluding from the appearance that such a thing happens, because they embraced this falsity could not be in the society of angels, but were as it were cast out of their society (not by angels, but by themselves, for their being cast down is just that: the falsity casts itself down, for no angel casts another out). Therefore, when they have been thus cast out on account of falsity about the inflow of human thoughts, then the interacting spirits, to whom these matters are portrayed as birds, fell down with such force and violence that it seemed to them their necks and skulls would break.