4700. CONCERNING AN INFERNAL WHO APPEARED LIKE A HUGE DRAGON-SERPENT - CONCERNING NATURAL GOOD. There was a certain one, who applied himself under the left side of the head beneath the cerebellum in that part, who was somewhat hidden; but angels told me that there appeared, there, a great serpent, huge like a beam, and they said, that, from him, came out four feet. It was horrible - more horrible than [I had] seen anything before. He was compelled to speak, and, so, was recognized, and then it was seen of what quality he was. He was a natural hypocrite, doing good, outwardly: within was nothing but seductiveness and evil; so that outwardly he had quite a powerful good, whereby he was able to seduce nearly everybody. Whomsoever he saw with me, or in my memory, he attracted according to their nature; and it was said that he disposed them in a certain order, so that they might be able to be of service to him, or to perform useful offices for hi. This also he practiced; and it was said, that thus he had in mind [animus] a certain [plan], as was said, of forming to himself a train of followers. This - as he acted, then, in that manner - he drew from his life. The attracting force was latent, so that they were not aware that they were attracted, because he adroitly entered into their good affections, and thus adjoined them to himself. It was said that afterwards it appeared as if he swallowed the. Such do they become who possess natural good and fill this with malignities. He could reason very correctly concerning civil life and concerning the dispositions and minds [animi] of those who were there.