That angels thus fall down when they are absorbed in fantasies supported by reasonings, may be seen earlier [2823-7]. There are very many such falls and at almost every moment, otherwise heaven cannot go on, for no one can ever to eternity be cleansed of fantasies, and not even entirely from a single one (but it is not a cleansing). When they fall down, they are then driven in fantasies some this way, some differently, some in this quarter, some in another, some vertically downwards, some in a different direction. Then those who suppose this is done in hell and in the world of spirits without any purpose-they fall vertically downwards into that swamp [2825]. It is muddy black because there is nothing of life. Only in the purpose of things is there what is living, because the Lord, Who is the Purpose, [is there].