476. THAT THE THREE PRIMATES WERE THRUST DOWN FROM HEAVEN This night those three primates, namely A(braham), J(acob) and M(oses), who were near me, were again thrust down, and two of them were deprived of their faculty of understanding, so that they were foolish, as is usually the case with devils from whom the faculty of perceiving is taken away, and with whom only instinct remains - except A[braham] who excels in understanding. Others were substituted in their place that they might receive those who came. But these complained that they were unable to help. They related, that they come in troops, and seek where A. J. M. are; that they appear very greatly deformed - the deformity cannot be described; that they are entirely destitute of understanding, for they can see clearly nothing of truth and good; they are therefore the more to be lamented. They run about through what they suppose to be the streets of the city of Jerusalem, as if they were insane; and they beg, but no one receives them, nor, as they say, is willing to give them nourishment. Their city is miserable, the streets are narrow. 1748, Jan. 15.