700. When one society after another had said as if in unison and with a raised voice, that the wolf had wanted to carry them away, but the Lord had snatched them back and restored them to Himself, such sayings were continued from one society to another, or by one choir after another, thus further and further away from me even as to distance. By some it was said more doubtingly, thus with a fading away of the words, which fading was nevertheless restored to the full. They were concluded by the twelfth society: they said that there were twelve such societies. There were indeed eleven [admitted], but yet the twelfth was also admitted [but with greater difficulty than the others].* Afterwards there again came about eight societies speaking in like manner, which I supposed were of the other sex, or of another genus. * See AC 2130.