2824. As for the fall, it was portrayed as follows. First it appeared as if a veil were bending around in circles above the head at a distance, periodically turning around. The veil was flying, as I have seen in pictures somewhere, and soon it was bending around faster and faster, until it did not appear as a veil higher up, but by its swift revolution it was looking like a spherical horizon being rotated, such as is that of the rotating atmosphere, and this from right to left. So he appeared to be driven around in circles, which results from the fantasy of falsity thus driving him around, causing this portrayal to appear. With the falling angel it is the insanity of his earthly mind which, when he falls into the world of spirits-I do not know whether it so appears to him-causes that portrayal of