4709. They showed how they are accustomed to withdraw that snowy thing, from some who were round about to others who were like themselves. One of them rolled himself round like an axle-tree, and thinking, at the time, from many persuasions joined to affections, he then also enticed to himself good and pious spirits, and took them away from another. Then the other appeared black, or without the bright circle around. Others who are of such a character, but more cunning, act similarly; but they roll themselves around, not as an axis, but obliquely lengthwise, holding in, at the time, their thoughts or affections, and placing themselves in the state of the affections: they then take [these] away, from the spirits who are watching them, somewhat to others, so that they appear blacker.