A certain spirit came to me in the evening and spoke with me, showing all the signs of having come recently from the earth. Since spirits, who are eager to know everything, were then trying different ways to find out what he was like, and whether there was anything discordant in him, they at once wanted to attack him, but every time they were held back from so doing. So he was constantly being defended, especially for the reason, of course, that he was a stranger, to whom we are commanded to do good. Therefore, good spirits and angels, by the Lord's power, protected him, even though those spirits were trying in different ways to take him into their company, and thus to inflict evil on him, as usual-using their special arts, of course, but in vain. He was at first overhead, later below the cerebellum, so that they could not find out what he was like.