8120. This I can likewise aver on the basis of many experiences. For while they are being held in bonds, they keep silent; but they constantly injected into my mind everything that was exhaling from them, like vapors, which I could smell so plainly that nothing could be plainer. For I was allowed to find out, not only that it was they who were pouring in that exhalation, but I was also given to know who they were; for as soon as I turned my mind in their direction, they were pictured before me, and were chastised. And as long as the chastisement lasted, they would stop; but afterwards they still persisted, and did not cease until they had been cast out. I could feel so vividly that they were being cast out, as if by a delicate sensation during that whole time - when they were being driven out, and others when they simply went away, sometimes [others] when they were coming. Moreover, they also made their presence evident to me by other indications; for it was sometimes allowed them to completely draw toward themselves, so to speak, and then to occupy, the aura of my thoughts - and to do this so firmly and harshly that it almost pulled away my brain. I could never have been freed from this but by the Divine mercy of God the Messiah. Then at once I could actually feel my state change. But if I were to recount all those particulars, they would be too many to set forth in detail, etc. etc. [Spirit]