699. When I awoke, certain societies of spirits, one after the other, began to say in a melodious and raised voice, that the wolf had wanted to carry them away, but that the Lord had snatched them from the wolf, and thus they had been restored to the Lord. As a result of this they rejoiced from the inmost heart, because they had been in despair, fearing greatly that the Lord had rejected them and thus that the wolves would possess them, and fearing that the Lord would not want to have them any longer, that on account of the abundance of spirits and angels in heaven there was no longer any room to receive more. This was in their general thought which I manifestly perceived.