Because the dragon continually bears malice and plots deceptions against the faithful, he even, about two days ago [25 Aug.] plotted a new trick together with others, trying to call forth cutthroats, for which reason he fled away toward the rear of me when he himself had been treated miserably by the cutthroats [2922], being there for about a day. Today he invented a different trick to deceive and then drive away innocent people, namely, turning himself into the form of an inward spirit, which can easily be done, and then deceiving them under that form. He was therefore by permission turned into that form, into which he had not [been turned] before, so they say, and then he flew forth quite high toward the regions in front, speaking with me all the while through spirits. But since there are myriads of such evil spirits, he was let in among them and treated badly, but was set free by the Lord. So he was brought back into his original form, namely that of an outward spirit, such as he is and had been. Then, so that I would learn of their state when those who are inward go back into the outward form, he spoke with me from his own proper form, remembering nothing of what had happened to him in the form of an inward spirit. So he had forgotten everything, and if he had not learned from me that he had been thus [changed], and had been among those evil spirits, among other things, he would not have known what he had done at that time. This all shows that inward spirits and angels, when they become spirits, do not know what went on in heaven, or even that they had been [inward] spirits or angels.