602. I also felt the influx of the evil genii, but it had no effect upon me then, because they were unable to have any proximate communication. One of them who is a dragon, being then encompassed by very many evil spirits and genii and thus having the power of acting with greater force, then labored with every art to thrust himself into [that heavenly sphere] and to infest. But he later confessed that he could avail nothing, and he wanted to persuade his crew to descend.