There are, as may be seen above [2565-75], evil spirits in the inward world, and there are also good spirits, but they do not communicate except at the Lord's good pleasure. When they were speaking among themselves, I could not understand anything. To me it was like a pleasant silence together with the perception that they were speaking among themselves. When in my dream evil spirits of the inward world brought in falsities, the good spirits were annoyed, not knowing otherwise than that they came from me. When I awoke, so that they might know that it came and what came from evil spirits, I spoke with them in the silence. So not a thing from the realm of evil spirits reaches them except at the Lord's good pleasure. 1748, 12 Aug.