3393. and complained at his escaping them in this way. For I realized that he could thus be in companies of angelic spirits, while otherwise he would not have been able to. But this is only the first plane into which they are thus inaugurated, for there still remain thoughts and desires as before, but in the absence of this plane, by means of which bodily qualities are most closely adapted to inward ones, he is not allowed by the Lord to be among the angelic in regard to thoughts and feelings. That he could now even be released from lower spirits as to the whole body, was also shown to me by windings and at the same time foldings of his small body-also like a human one in color, which was found to be so flexible that it then could not be hurt by lower spirits, thus by evil ones, because, as I perceived, they could not flow in through fantasies and bring on any pain to his body as they are used to doing to those who have not yet been prepared to be released from such spirits.