998. CONCERNING LITTLE STARS Sometimes evil and black spirits approach with a multitude of stars. Indeed they even present to view the starry heaven, which I had always considered to be an indication of the understanding, because stars represent intelligences. But from these black spirits I perceived, and being thus instructed, I knew that stars also signify insanities. There is this difference, however, that when they represent insanities, they twinkle, and move from their places, but when they represent intellectual things, they are fixed. As to their light and their size, they scarcely differ. 1748, Feb. 25.