602. The influence of evil demons I have also felt, but without any effect upon myself at the time, because they could not have very close communication. One of them who is a dragon, encircled at that time by very many evil spirits and demons, enabling him to work more forcefully, was then laboring and using every device to find his way in and attack. But he eventually admitted that it had been to no avail, and he wanted to persuade his crowd to depart.