699. When I awoke, certain societies of spirits, one after the other, began to declare in a singing, loud voice, that the Wolf had wanted to steal them away, but the Lord had snatched them from the wolf, and that they had then been restored to the Lord. On this account they rejoiced from the depths of their heart. For they had been in despair, extremely afraid that the Lord had rejected them, and that the wolves would therefore seize them and the Lord no longer wanted to keep them. They feared that there was an overabundance of spirits or angels in heaven, so that no room was left to receive more. This was the generally shared thought, which I perceived clearly.