Evil spirits of the more subtle kind streamed into my thoughts, and I recognized that they were from those deceitful ones overhead who indeed flow fluidly and softly, but whose efforts are evil; nor were they able to achieve their purpose. Thus it progressed in degrees from those who streamed in from there more roughly, to those who did so more subtly so that the awareness of an inflow began almost to pass away, while the awareness that evil ones were flowing in remained.