It happened when I was speaking with spirits that I seemed to myself to take away the grosser aura, as is done by a spiritual custom not understandable to man, and when the grosser aura was thus taken away, then spirits at a distance toward the front began to lament that now they could not be present, so they fled away. And this is also one kind of dispersion of spirits, like the east wind [see 2121-7, 2972]. 1748, 16 Sept. By removal, as of a shadow or a rather thick cloud, is meant that there are societies of this region that flee away. This is so portrayed that at the time I cannot tell but that it is a kind of dispersion of shadow. It has quite often been done by me before when I was being led to more serene and purer qualities of the senses and of the understanding.