There are very many such people in the world, who re-ject spiritual things because they do not grasp them with the senses, thus thinking them to be like a cloud or smoke that is dissipated when the body dies. Such have been with me the whole night, and they are overhead, forward, rather high up, where some seemed to be watching guards, who kept watch over me the whole night, to punish me because I had spoken and written so much about spiritual things, when yet they cannot grasp them by means of any kind of physical sense. Those guards kept me in a middle state, nearer to wakefulness than to sleep, thus annoying me through many hours of the night. Their fantasy was so simple and silly that I cannot describe it, such was their aura. Then it was also due to their aura that I could not be freed by the Lord, but was absurdly unable to come to any spiritual thought.