They were with me overhead, not so high up as those from the most ancient Church. At first they were streaming in quite softly and inconspicuously, but due to inner sight I was given to recognize that they were inwardly evil, because their inward action was against love. Later it was imparted to me that they were from the offspring of the most ancient Church, which was spurious, and about whom it was said that the imagination of their heart was nothing but evil [Gen. 6:5]. Later it was also indicated by breathing in the region of the genitals, where, as you may see in an earlier discussion, their love betook itself [3316], which had been separated from true love, so that they loved their offspring most tenderly, as they even declared. Now since their inward action was against love-but such that if I had not been given inner sight by the Lord, I never would have perceived it-so since they were carrying this in their mind, the spirits were fleeing away, shouting that they could not bear the cadaverous odor such as they had never smelled before, because it would kill them, as they are now adding.