There was a volume, as it were, of spirits, not as compact as the volume of other spirits [3233], thus more or less separated, and quite stretched out in breadth and length, of which I became aware in the earth beneath me. From this I recognized that it was a certain race of spirits unknown to me. This volume was trying to struggle upwards, thus to come hither, but it was unable, or those spirits were unable. There ever appeared to be some earthen obstacle so that they could not struggle out. So I realized they had a different nature, not compatible with the nature of the spirits of this earth, for right away there was something in the way. So * Probably meaning "solar system (see 3269)."