2676. About spirits appearing as little fires and stars
Spirits can also be told apart among themselves, when it pleases the Lord, by their appearance as fires, or stars, little ones. The ones whose reasonings have been obscured by falsities, appear to others as red fires; those still more obscured by falsities, as coal fires; those still more, as a kind of fire that has a sickening look, so sad as to strike others with sorrow.