3112. Afterwards, when this separating ceased, they acted as one person as before, and I asked them if they knew whether they rule themselves, because they had just been punished. They said they know they are not ruled by themselves, without there being discordance. Then I inquired by what lord they were ruled, whether by the dragon, which they denied, but by what other lord, they did not know. They still do not want to say by the Lord. For without agreement toward one purpose, and without the Lord, by whom they are held in agreement-such as thinking that they also control me and are as a person on earth, thus everyone, no matter how many, are thus held in agreement-[without Him] their purpose is that of their character, a purpose that does not hold them in agreement, but carries the spirit of one against the other. 1748, 9* Sept. * The autograph has 8.